And the Pharisees came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to loose his wife for every cause And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female, And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh? read more.
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate. They say to him, Why then did Moses charge to give a writing of divorce, and loose her? He says to them that Moses for your hard heart permitted you to loose your wives: and from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, That whoever should loose his wife, except for fornication, and marry another, commits adultery; and he having married the one loosed commits adultery. His disciples say to him, If the cause of a man is so with the woman, it is not profitable to marry. And he said to them, All have not room for this word, but to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs, who were born so from the mother's belly: and there are eunuchs, who were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of the heavens. He being able to receive, let him receive.

Mark 10:2-12

And the Pharisees having come near, asked him, if it is lawful for a man to loose his wife; tempting him. And he, having answered, said to them, What did Moses command you? And they said, Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to loose. read more.
And Jesus, having answered, said to them, For your hard heart he wrote you this command. And from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this will a man leave his father and mother, and be attached to his wife; And they two shall be in one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God yoked together, let not man separate. And again in the house, his disciples asked him of the same. And he says to them, Whoever should loose his wife, and should marry another, commits adultery against her. And if a woman should loose her husband, and be married to another, she commits adultery.

Marriage » Husbands and wives becoming one

1 Corinthians 6:15-16

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? having taken the members of Christ, shall I make members of a harlot? It may not be. Or know ye not that he joined to a harlot is one body? for they shall be, he says, they two into one flesh.

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his woman; and they shall be into one flesh.

Matthew 19:4-6

And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female, And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh? So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate.

Mark 10:6-9

And from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this will a man leave his father and mother, and be attached to his wife; And they two shall be in one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh. read more.
What therefore God yoked together, let not man separate.

Ephesians 5:28-31

So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He loving his wife, loves himself. For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. read more.
For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Marriage » Indissoluble during the joint lives of the parties

Romans 7:2-3

For a married woman is bound by the law to a living husband; and if the husband die, she is left inactive from the law of the husband. Wherefore, the husband living, she shall be called adulteress if she be to another man: but if the man die, she is free from the law; not to be an adulteress, being to another man.

Matthew 19:6

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate.

Verse Concepts

1 Corinthians 7:39

The woman was bound by law for as much time as her husband lives; and if her husband be set to sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.