Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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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Bible References

And they shall be one flesh

Matthew 19:3
Then the Pharisees came up to tempt him. They asked, "Is it right to divorce one's wife for any reason?"
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning, when God created the world, Male and female, He created them:
Romans 7:2
Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is alive; but if the husband dies, she is done with the law of 'the husband.'
1 Corinthians 6:16
Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body (for the pair, it is said, shall become one flesh),
1 Corinthians 7:2
but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.
Ephesians 5:28
So ought husbands to love their wives ??to love them as their own bodies (he who loves his wife loves himself).
1 Timothy 5:14
So I prefer young widows to marry again, to bear children, to look after their households, and not to afford our opponents any chance of reviling us.
1 Peter 3:1
In the same way, you wives must be submissive to your husbands, so that even those who will not believe the Word may be won over without a word by the behaviour of their wives,

General references

Mark 10:7
hence a man shall leave his father and mother,
Ephesians 5:31
Therefore shall a man leave father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the pair shall be one flesh.