32 Bible Verses about One Flesh

And the LORD God made of the rib which he took out of Adam, a woman, and brought her unto Adam. Then said Adam, "This is once bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. This shall be called woman: because she was taken of the man." For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

Do ye not understand that he which coupleth himself with a harlot, is become one body? "For two," saith he, "shall be one flesh."

So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. For no man ever yet, hated his own flesh; but nourisheth, and cherisheth it: even as the Lord doth the congregation.

And Adam lay with Eve his wife, which conceived and bare Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man of the LORD."

Then said the elder unto the younger, "Our father is old, and there are no more men in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the world. Come therefore, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him that we may save seed of our father." And they gave their father wine to drink that same night. And the elder daughter went and lay with her father. And he perceived it not; neither when she lay down, neither when she rose up.read more.
And on the morrow the elder said unto the younger, "Behold, yesternight lay I with my father. Let us give him wine to drink this night also, and go thou and lie with him, and let us save seed of our father." And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him. And he perceived it not; neither when she lay down, neither when she rose up.

And Jacob said unto Laban, "Give me my wife, that I may lie with her. For the time appointed me is come."

And they rose up early and bowed themselves before the LORD, and then returned and went to their house to Ramah. And Elkanah lay by his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.

And Uriah said unto David, "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in pavilions; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord lie in tents upon the flat earth - and should I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By thy life and as sure as thy soul liveth, I will not do that thing."

And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her and lay with her, and she bare a son whose name was called Solomon, and the LORD loved him.

And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, "Get thee in unto thy father's concubines which he hath left to keep the house. For when all Israel shall hear that thou hast made thy father to stink, then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong."

The birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came to dwell together, she was found with child by the holy ghost.

Withdraw not yourselves one from another except it be with consent for a time, for to give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and afterward come again to the same thing, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

Either, remember ye not, that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I now take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid. Do ye not understand that he which coupleth himself with a harlot, is become one body? "For two," saith he, "shall be one flesh."

For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

and knew her not till she had brought forth her first son: and called his name Jesus.

and said, 'For this thing, shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh.'

'And for this thing's sake shall man leave his father and mother, and bide by his wife,

"For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall continue with his wife, and two shall be made one flesh."

For this cause, God gave them up unto shameful lusts. For even their women did change the natural use unto the unnatural. And likewise also the men left the natural use of the woman, and burnt in their lusts, one on another, among themselves. And man with man wrought filthiness: and received in themselves the reward of their error, as it was according.

He answered, and said unto them, "Have ye not read, how that he which made man at the beginning, made them man and woman? and said, 'For this thing, shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh.' Wherefore now are they not twain, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder, that which God hath coupled together."

But at the first creation, God made them man and woman, saying, 'And for this thing's sake shall man leave his father and mother, and bide by his wife, and they twain shall be made one flesh.' So then are they now not twain, but one flesh.read more.
Therefore, what God hath coupled, let not man separate."

And God created man after his likeness, after the likeness of God created he him; male and female created he them.

"Thou shalt not break wedlock.

'Thou shalt not break wedlock.

He that breaketh wedlock with another man's wife shall die for it, because he hath broke wedlock with his neighbour's wife, and so shall she likewise.

"Ye have heard how it was said to them of old time, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery:' But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a wife lusting after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

I wrote unto you in an epistle that ye should not company with fornicators. And I meant not at all of the fornicators of this world, either of the covetous, or of extortioners, either of the idolaters - for then must ye needs have gone out of the world - but now I write unto you that ye company not together. If any that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a worshipper of images, either a railer, either a drunkard, or an extortioner: with him that is such see that ye eat not.

Do ye not remember how that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. For neither fornicators, neither worshippers of images, neither whoremongers, neither weaklings, neither abusers of themselves with mankind,

The wife hath not power over her own body: but the husband; And likewise the man hath not power over his own body: but the wife.

"'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, for that is abomination.

"For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall continue with his wife, and two shall be made one flesh." This is a great secret, but I speak between Christ and the congregation.

Do ye not understand that he which coupleth himself with a harlot, is become one body? "For two," saith he, "shall be one flesh." but he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.