Verse 6

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 7:2 : 2 For a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he is alive; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.
  • Mark 10:9 : 9 'Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.'
  • Prov 2:17 : 17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet you ask, 'Why?' Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-14 : 10 To the married I give this command—not I, but the Lord: A wife must not separate from her husband. 11 But if she does, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife. 12 To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. 13 And if a woman has a husband who is an unbeliever and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. 14 For the unbelieving husband is made holy through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
  • Eph 5:28 : 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage is to be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.