Verse 6

So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 7:2 : 2 For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.
  • Mark 10:9 : 9 Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.
  • Prov 2:17 : 17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-14 : 10 But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband 11 (Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife. 12 But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her. 13 And if a woman has a husband who is not a Christian, and it is his desire to go on living with her, let her not go away from her husband. 14 For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.
  • Eph 5:28 : 28 Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.