Genesis 2:24

The First Woman

²³ And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. ²⁴ Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and {the two (LXX/NT)} shall be one flesh. ²⁵ And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

For This Cause

One Flesh

Psalm 45:10

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

Matthew 19:3-9

And Pharisees came to him, trying him, and saying to him, Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?

1 Corinthians 6:16-17

Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

Mark 10:6-12

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

1 Corinthians 7:10-11

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

Ephesians 5:28-31

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

1 Peter 3:1-7

Likewise the wives, being subordinate to their own husbands, so that even if any are disobedient to the word, they will be gained without a word by the behavior of the wives,

Proverbs 31:10

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

Malachi 2:14-16

Yet ye say, Why? Because LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou have dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

1 Corinthians 7:2-4

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

Genesis 24:58-59

And they called Rebekah, and said to her, Will thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.

Genesis 31:14-15

And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

Leviticus 22:12-13

And if a priest's daughter be married to a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.

Deuteronomy 4:4

But ye who clung to LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.

Deuteronomy 10:20

Thou shall fear LORD thy God. Him thou shall serve, and to him thou shall cling, and by his name thou shall swear.

Joshua 23:8

but cling to LORD your God as ye have done to this day.

Proverbs 12:4

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but she who makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Acts 11:23

who, having arrived, and having seen the grace of God, rejoiced. And he encouraged all, with purpose of heart, to remain in the Lord.

Romans 7:2

For the woman under authority to the living husband has been bound by law, but if the husband should die, she has been released from the law of the husband.

1 Timothy 5:14

I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.