Genesis 2:24

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That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

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  • Matt 19:3-9 : 3 Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked,“Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?” 4 He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female, 5 and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” 7 They said to him,“Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?” 8 Jesus said to them,“Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way. 9 Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”
  • Eph 5:28-31 : 28 In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one has ever hated his own body, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
  • Mark 10:6-9 : 6 But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female. 7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, 8 and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” 10 In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this. 11 So he told them,“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. 12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
  • 1 Cor 6:16-17 : 16 Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said,“The two will become one flesh.” 17 But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 14 Yet you ask,“Why?” The LORD is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law. 15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth. 16 “I hate divorce,” says the LORD God of Israel,“and the one who is guilty of violence,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.”
  • 1 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 To the married I give this command– not I, but the Lord– a wife should not divorce a husband 11 (but if she does, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.
  • 1 Pet 3:1-7 : 1 Wives and Husbands In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live, 2 when they see your pure and reverent conduct. 3 Let your beauty not be external– the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes– 4 but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight. 5 For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands, 6 like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so. 7 Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.
  • 1 Cor 7:2-4 : 2 But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband. 3 A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband. 4 It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.
  • Ps 45:10 : 10 Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 19:4-6
    3 verses
    93%

    4He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

    5and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

    6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

  • Eph 5:28-33
    6 verses
    93%

    28In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

    29For no one has ever hated his own body, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

    30because we are members of his body.

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

    32This mystery is great– but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

    33Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

  • Mark 10:6-9
    4 verses
    91%

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

    7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

    8and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

  • Gen 2:21-23
    3 verses
    87%

    21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

    22Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

    23Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

  • Gen 2:25
    83%

    25The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.

  • Gen 2:18
    76%

    18The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

  • Deut 24:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

    2When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

    3A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

    4It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

  • 1 Cor 6:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said,“The two will become one flesh.”

    17But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.

  • Mal 2:15
    73%

    15No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.

  • Gen 5:2
    72%

    2He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them“humankind.”

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10To the married I give this command– not I, but the Lord– a wife should not divorce a husband

    11(but if she does, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.

  • Gen 1:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

    28God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”

  • Deut 22:30
    71%

    30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

  • Gen 3:20
    71%

    20The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

  • Gen 4:1
    71%

    1The Story of Cain and Abel Now the man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said,“I have created a man just as the LORD did!”

  • Eph 5:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

    25Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

  • Matt 22:25
    70%

    25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

  • Deut 28:30
    70%

    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

  • Gen 2:15
    70%

    15The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

  • Eph 5:22
    70%

    22Exhortations to Households Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

  • 1 Cor 11:8
    70%

    8For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

  • 1 Tim 2:13
    70%

    13For Adam was formed first and then Eve.

  • Prov 5:18
    70%

    18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth–

  • Deut 25:11
    70%

    11If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his private parts,

  • Mark 10:11
    69%

    11So he told them,“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
    69%

    11In any case, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

  • Heb 13:4
    69%

    4Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

  • Deut 20:7
    69%

    7Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”