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 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become 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

Then the Pharisees came unto him, tempting him and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for any cause?

1 Corinthians 6:16-17

What? know ye not that he who is joined to the harlot is one body with her? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

Mark 10:6-12

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

1 Corinthians 7:10-11

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife separate from her husband;

Ephesians 5:28-31

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

1 Peter 3:1-7

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that also those who do not obey the Word, may be won without a word by the conversation of their wives,

Proverbs 31:10

Aleph Who can find a valiant woman? for her price is far above precious stones.

Malachi 2:14-16

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

1 Corinthians 7:2-4

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Genesis 24:58-59

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

Genesis 31:14-15

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

Leviticus 22:12-13

If the priest's daughter becomes married unto a stranger, she may not eat of that which is set apart of the holy things.

Deuteronomy 4:4

But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive, every one of you this day.

Deuteronomy 10:20

Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave and swear by his name.

Joshua 23:8

but cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.

Proverbs 12:4

The virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she that makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Acts 11:23

Who, when he came and had seen the grace of God, was glad and exhorted them all to remain in their purpose of heart in the Lord.

Romans 7:2

For the woman who is subject to a husband is obligated to the law so long as the husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law of the husband.

1 Timothy 5:14

I desire therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, govern the house, giving no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.