Ephesians 5:31

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?›
  • Mark 10:7-8 : 7 ‹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;› 8 ‹And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.›
  • 1 Cor 6:16 : 16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 19:4-7
    4 verses
    94%

    4And he answered and said unto them, ‹Have ye not read, that he which made› [them] ‹at the beginning made them male and female,›

    5‹And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?›

    6‹Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.›

    7They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

  • Gen 2:22-25
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    93%

    22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

    23And Adam 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 10:6-9
    4 verses
    92%

    6‹But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.›

    7‹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;›

    8‹And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.›

    9‹What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.›

  • Eph 5:32-33
    2 verses
    87%

    32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

    33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.

  • Eph 5:27-30
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    83%

    27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

    28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

    29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

    30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-18
    4 verses
    79%

    15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.

    16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be 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 5:22-25
    4 verses
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    22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

    23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

    24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.

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

  • Matt 5:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    31‹It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:›

    32‹But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.›

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
    4 verses
    74%

    2Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

    4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

    5Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10¶ And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:

    11But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife.

  • Mark 10:11
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    11And he saith unto them, ‹Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.›

  • Deut 24:1-2
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    71%

    1¶ When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him 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].

  • Mal 2:15
    71%

    15And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

  • Gen 2:18
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    18¶ And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
    69%

    11Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

  • Matt 22:25
    69%

    25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:

  • Prov 5:18
    69%

    18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

  • Heb 13:4
    69%

    4Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

  • Matt 19:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9‹And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except› [it be] ‹for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.›

    10His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with [his] wife, it is not good to marry.

  • Rom 12:5
    68%

    5So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    68%

    27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

  • Deut 22:30
    68%

    30A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

  • Luke 18:29
    68%

    29And he said unto them, ‹Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,›

  • Luke 16:18
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    18‹Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from› [her] ‹husband committeth adultery.›