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.

And they shall be one flesh

General references

Mark 10:7

Ephesians 5:31

Bible References

And they shall be one flesh

And the Pharisees came to Him, tempting Him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause"

But from the beginning of the creation, 'Male and female made He them.'

For the married woman has been bound by law to the living husband; but, if the husband dies, she is loosed from the law of the husband.

Or know ye not that he who is united to the harlot is one body? For, "the two", He saith, "shall be one flesh";

but, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

So ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

I desire, therefore, that younger widows marry, bear children, rule a house-hold, give no occasion to the adversary for reproach;

In like manner, ye wives, be subject to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may, without the word, be gained through the conduct of their wives,

General references

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

For this cause, will a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.