Genesis 2:24

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Genesis 2:24

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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Genesis 24:58

Genesis 31:14

Psalm 45:10

And they shall be one flesh

General references

Mark 10:7

Ephesians 5:31

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And they called Rebekah and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

Hearken, O daughter, and consider and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

And they shall be one flesh

Yet ye say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously; yet she is thy companion and the wife of thy covenant.

Then the Pharisees came unto him, tempting him and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for any cause?

But at the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

For the woman who is subject to a husband is obligated to the law so long as the husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law of the husband.

What? know ye not that he who is joined to the harlot is one body with her? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

So ought husbands to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.

I desire therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, govern the house, giving no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that also those who do not obey the Word, may be won without a word by the conversation of their wives,

General references

For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall join to his wife;

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.