Genesis 2:24

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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  • Matt 19:3-9 : 3 The Pharisees also came to him, testing him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason? 4 And he answered and said to them, Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? 6 Therefore they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. 7 They said to him, Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away? 8 He said to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.
  • Eph 5:28-31 : 28 So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church: 30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
  • Mark 10:6-9 : 6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. 7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And the two shall become one flesh: so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. 10 And in the house his disciples asked him again about the same matter. 11 And he said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. 12 And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.
  • 1 Cor 6:16-17 : 16 What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh. 17 But he who is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 14 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant. 15 And did he not make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why 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. 16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates divorce; for one covers violence with his garment, says the LORD of hosts; therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 And to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord, that a wife should not leave her husband: 11 But if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife.
  • 1 Pet 3:1-7 : 1 In the same way, you wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the word, they may also be won without a word by the conduct of their wives; 2 While they observe your pure conduct with reverence. 3 Let your beauty not be the outward adornment of braiding hair, wearing gold, or putting on apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. 5 For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands: 6 Just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any fear. 7 In the same way, you husbands, live with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
  • 1 Cor 7:2-4 : 2 Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband give to the wife her due affection, and likewise also the wife to the husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
  • Ps 45:10 : 10 Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget your own people, and your father's house;

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    4 And he answered and said to them, Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female,

    5 And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?

    6 Therefore they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

  • Eph 5:28-33
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    28 So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

    29 For no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church:

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

    31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

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

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

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

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

    8 And the two shall become one flesh: so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

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    21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.

    22 And with the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, He made a woman and brought her to the man.

    23 And 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.

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    2 And when she has departed from his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

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    2 Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

    3 Let the husband give to the wife her due affection, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

    4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

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    16 What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

    17 But he who is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

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    15 And did he not make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why 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.

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    2 Male and female He created them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

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    10 And to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord, that a wife should not leave her husband:

    11 But if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife.

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    27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

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    20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

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    24 Therefore just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

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    25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

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    30 You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

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    15 And the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.

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    22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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    8 For the man is not from the woman, but the woman from the man.

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    13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

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

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    11 Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

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    4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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    7 And what man is there who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.