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?

"It was owing to the hardness of your hearts," said Jesus, "that Moses gave you this direction;

'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife; and the man and his wife shall become one.'

Let your love be sincere. Hate the wrong; cling to the right.

Or do not you know that a man who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body (for 'the two,' it is said, 'will become one');

But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.

'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother,

'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife; and the man and his wife shall become one.'