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
And the pharisees came to Him to ensnare Him, and asked Him, whether it was lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
Mark 10:6
but from the beginning of the world, God created them male and female.
Romans 7:2
For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband die, she is discharged from the law of her husband.
1 Corinthians 6:16
God forbid! What! know ye not that he who is joined to an harlot is one body with her? for these two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless to prevent whoredoms, let every one have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Ephesians 5:28
Men ought so to love their wives, as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife, loveth himself.
1 Timothy 5:14
I would therefore have the younger widows marry, bear children, manage houshold affairs, and give no occasion to the adversary for reproach.
1 Peter 3:1
Ye women likewise, be subject to your own husbands, that if any believe not the word, they may yet without the word be gained over by the deportment of the wives,

General references

Mark 10:7
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother,
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.