Genesis 2:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

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  • Matt 19:3-9 : 3 And certain Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, Is it right for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said, 5 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh? 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. 7 They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her? 8 He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first. 9 And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.
  • Eph 5:28-31 : 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: 29 For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church; 30 Because we are parts of his body. 31 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
  • Mark 10:6-9 : 6 But from the first, male and female made he them. 7 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; 8 And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man. 10 And in the house the disciples put questions to him again about this thing. 11 And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife; 12 And if she herself puts away her husband and takes another, she is false to her husband.
  • 1 Cor 6:16-17 : 16 Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh. 17 But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 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. 15 ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years. 16 For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-11 : 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.
  • 1 Pet 3:1-7 : 1 Wives, be ruled by your husbands; so that even if some of them give no attention to the word, their hearts may be changed by the behaviour of their wives, 2 When they see your holy behaviour in the fear of God. 3 Do not let your ornaments be those of the body such as dressing of the hair, or putting on of jewels of gold or fair clothing; 4 But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God. 5 And these were the ornaments of the holy women of the past, whose hope was in God, being ruled by their husbands: 6 As Sarah was ruled by Abraham, naming him lord; whose children you are if you do well, and are not put in fear by any danger. 7 And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.
  • 1 Cor 7:2-4 : 2 But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband. 3 Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband. 4 The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.
  • Ps 45:10 : 10 O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;

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    4And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

    5For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

    6So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

  • Eph 5:28-33
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    28Even 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:

    29For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

    30Because we are parts of his body.

    31For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

    32This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

    33But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

  • Mark 10:6-9
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    6But from the first, male and female made he them.

    7For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

    8And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.

  • Gen 2:21-23
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    21And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:

    22And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.

    23And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

  • Gen 2:25
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    25And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.

  • Gen 2:18
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    18And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him

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    1If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

    2And when she has gone away from him, she may become another man's wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-4
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    2But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

    3Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

    4The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

  • 1 Cor 6:16-17
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    16Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

    17But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

  • Mal 2:15
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    15... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

  • Gen 5:2
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    2Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
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    10But 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.

  • Gen 1:27-28
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    27And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

    28And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

  • Deut 22:30
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    30A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

  • Gen 3:20
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    20And the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was the mother of all who have life.

  • Gen 4:1
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    1And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord.

  • Eph 5:24-25
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    24And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.

    25Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

  • Matt 22:25
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    25Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;

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    30You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Gen 2:15
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    15And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

  • Eph 5:22
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    22Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 11:8
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    8For the man did not come from the woman, but the woman from the man.

  • 1 Tim 2:13
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    13For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

  • Prov 5:18
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    18Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

  • Deut 25:11
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    11If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;

  • Mark 10:11
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    11And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife;

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11But the woman is not separate from the man, and the man is not separate from the woman in the Lord.

  • Heb 13:4
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    4Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

  • Deut 20:7
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    7Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.