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 forth Rebekah and said unto her, "Wilt thou go with this man?" And she said, "Yea."

Then answered Rachel and Lea and said unto him, "We have no part nor inheritance in our father's house:

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

And they shall be one flesh

And yet ye say, 'Wherefore?' Even because that whereas the LORD made a covenant betwixt thee and the wife of thy youth, thou hast despised her: Yet is she thine own companion and married wife.

Then came unto him the Pharisees to tempt him, and said to him, "Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for all manner of causes?"

But at the first creation, God made them man and woman, saying,

For the woman which is in subjection to a man, is bound by the law to the man, as long as he liveth. If the man be dead, she is loosed from the law of the man.

Do ye not understand that he which coupleth himself with a harlot, is become one body? "For two," saith he, "shall be one flesh."

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his wife: and let every woman have her 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 and bear children, and guide the house, and give none occasion to the adversary to speak evil.

Likewise, let the wives be in subjection to their husbands, that even they which believe not the word, may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives:

General references

'And for this thing's sake shall man leave his father and mother, and bide by his wife,

"For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall continue with his wife, and two shall be made one flesh."