Thematic Bible: Husbands and wives becoming one


Thematic Bible



Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? then taking the members of Christ, shall I make them the members of a harlot? it could not be so. Do you not know that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? for it says, They two shall be one flesh.


And He responding said to them, Have you not read, that the one having made them from the beginning made them male and female? And He said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife; and they two shall be one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh: therefore what God joined together, let no man separate.

But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. On this account a man shall leave his father and his mother, and they two shall be one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. read more.
And what God joined together, let no man separate.

So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself: for no one ever yet hated his own flesh; but he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church; because we are members of his body: read more.
on account of this a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife: and they two shall be one flesh.