Thematic Bible: Husbands and wives becoming one


Thematic Bible



Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Taking then the members of Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? God forbid. Do you not know that he that is joined to an harlot is one body with her? For they two, saith he, shall be "one flesh."


But he replying, said unto them, Have ye not read, that he who created them from the beginning, created them male and female? And he said, for this reason shall a man forsake father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. Wherefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath yoked together, let no man separate.

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female; and said, For this cause shall a man forsake father and mother, and shall adhere to his wife; and they two shall be one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh. read more.
What therefore God hath yoked together, let no man separate.

So ought husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: for we are the members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. read more.
For this reason shall a man forsake his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be as one flesh.