Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And they shall be one flesh
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Genesis 24:58
And they called Rebekah, and said to her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
Genesis 31:14
And Rachel and Leah answered, and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
Psalm 45:10
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thy ear; forget also thy own people, and thy father's house;
And they shall be one flesh
Malachi 2:14
Yet ye say, Why? 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.
Matthew 19:3
The Pharisees also came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
Romans 7:2
For the woman who hath a husband, is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband is dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
1 Corinthians 6:16
What? know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid lewdness, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Ephesians 5:28
So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.
1 Timothy 5:14
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
1 Peter 3:1
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 deportment of the wives;
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Mark 10:7
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Ephesians 5:31
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.