Genesis 2:24

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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.

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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

Bible References

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So they called Rebekah and asked her, "Do you want to go with this man?" She replied, "I want to go."

Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, "Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father's house?

Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family!

And they shall be one flesh

Yet you ask, "Why?" The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.

Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?"

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

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.

In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live,

General references

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.