Ephesians 5:31
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
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- Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
- Matt 19:5 : 5 and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
- Mark 10:7-8 : 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; 8 and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.
- 1 Cor 6:16 : 16 Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
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- Matt 19:4-74 verses94%
4And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made [them] from the beginning made them male and female,
5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
7They say unto him, Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put [her] away?
- Gen 2:22-254 verses93%
22and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
- Mark 10:6-94 verses92%
6But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them.
7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;
8and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.
9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
- Eph 5:32-332 verses87%
32This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
33Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.
- Eph 5:27-304 verses83%
27that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
29for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;
30because we are members of his body.
- 1 Cor 6:15-184 verses79%
15Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
16Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
- Eph 5:22-254 verses75%
22Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.
24But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.
25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
- Matt 5:31-322 verses74%
31It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
32but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.
- 1 Cor 7:2-54 verses74%
2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
3Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
- 1 Cor 7:10-112 verses73%
10But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband
11(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.
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11And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her:
- Deut 24:1-22 verses71%
1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife] .
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15And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
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18And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
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11Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.
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25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first married and deceased, and having no seed left his wife unto his brother;
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18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
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4[ Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
- Matt 19:9-102 verses69%
9And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.
10The disciples say unto him, If the case of the man is so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.
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5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.
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27Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.
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30A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
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29And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or wife, or brethren, or parents, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,
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18Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.