Thematic Bible: Husbands and wives becoming one


Thematic Bible



Know you not that your bodies are Christ's members? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them a harlot's members? by no means. Know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body [with her]? For the two, says he, shall be one flesh.


And he answered and said, Have you not read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female? and he said, On this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. So that they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate.

but from the beginning of creation, he made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and the two shall be one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. read more.
What God therefore has yoked together, let not man separate.

Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church; for we are members of his body. read more.
For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.