Genesis 2:24

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Leave

Genesis 24:58

Genesis 31:14

Psalm 45:10

And they shall be one flesh

General references

Mark 10:7

Ephesians 5:31

Bible References

Leave

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, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

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

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

General references

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

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