Mark 10:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Cor 6:16 : 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.
  • Eph 5:28 : 28 So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 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 19:4-10
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    4And he answered and said to them, Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female,

    5And 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?

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

    7They said to him, Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?

    8He 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.

    9And 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.

    10His disciples said to him, If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.

  • Mark 10:9-12
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    89%

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

    10And in the house his disciples asked him again about the same matter.

    11And he said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

    12And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.

  • Eph 5:28-32
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    28So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

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

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

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

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

  • Gen 2:22-25
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    87%

    22And with the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, He made a woman and brought her to 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 mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

    25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

  • Mark 10:6-7
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    6But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:15-17
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    15Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 7:8-11
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    8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

    9But if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • Mal 2:15
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    15And 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.

  • Luke 16:18
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    18Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.

  • Job 41:17
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    17They are joined one to another; they clasp each other, and cannot be parted.

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    31Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce:'

    32But I say to you, that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
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    4The 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.

    5Do not deprive one another, except with consent for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  • Luke 20:34-35
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    34And Jesus answering said to them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

    35But those who are counted worthy to attain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

  • Matt 22:30
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    30For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels of God in heaven.

  • Deut 24:1
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    1When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Gen 2:18
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    18And the LORD God said, It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.

  • Ezek 37:17
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    17And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in your hand.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

  • Matt 22:28
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    28Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.

  • Mark 12:25
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    25For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

  • Prov 5:17
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    17Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.

  • Heb 13:4
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    4Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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