Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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Bible References
God
Proverbs 2:17
Who leaves the companion (husband) of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
Who leaves the companion (husband) of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
Malachi 2:14
But you say, “Why [does He reject it]?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously. Yet she is your marriage companion and the wife of your covenant [made by your vows].
Mark 10:9 Therefore, what God has united and joined together, man must not separate [by divorce].”
Romans 7:2
For the married woman [as an example] is bound and remains bound by law to her husband while he lives; but if her husband dies, she is released and exempt from the law concerning her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:10
But to the married [believers] I give instructions—not I, but the Lord—that the wife is not to separate from her husband,
Ephesians 5:28
Even so husbands should and are morally obligated to love their own wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is to be held in honor among all [that is, regarded as something of great value], and the marriage bed undefiled [by immorality or by any sexual sin]; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
General references
Mark 10:7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother [to establish a home with his wife],