Genesis 2:24

The First Woman

²³ And Adam 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 shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they 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 your ear; forget also your own people, and your father's house;

Matthew 19:3-9

The Pharisees also came unto him, testing him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

1 Corinthians 6:16-17

What? know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, says he, shall be one flesh.

Mark 10:6-12

But from 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 depart from her husband:

Ephesians 5:28-31

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

1 Peter 3:1-7

Likewise, you 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 conduct of the wives;

Proverbs 31:10

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Malachi 2:14-16

Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously: yet is she your companion, and the wife of your 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, Will you 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 also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

Deuteronomy 4:4

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

Deuteronomy 10:20

You shall fear the LORD your God; him shall you serve, and to him shall you cleave, and swear by his name.

Joshua 23:8

But cleave unto the LORD your God, as you have done unto this day.

Proverbs 12:4

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that makes ashamed is like rottenness in his bones.

Acts 11:23

Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cling unto the Lord.

Romans 7:2

For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband dies, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

1 Timothy 5:14

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, rule the house, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.