Matthew 19:5

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And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Jesus said to them, "He wrote you that command on account of the hardness of your hearts.

Therefore shall a man leave father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the pair shall be one flesh.

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body (for the pair, it is said, shall become one flesh),

but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.

hence a man shall leave his father and mother,

Therefore shall a man leave father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the pair shall be one flesh.