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 in consideration of your stubborn hearts," said Jesus, "that Moses enacted this law for you;

"For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."

Let your love be perfectly sincere. Regard with horror what is evil; cling to what is right.

Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife,

"For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."