Mark 10:7
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,
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- Gen 2:24 : 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
- Eph 5:31 : 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.
- Matt 19:5-6 : 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.”
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- Eph 5:28-336 verses92%
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.
32 This mystery is great– but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
- Gen 2:22-254 verses91%
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 Then 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.”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
25 The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.
- Matt 19:4-107 verses91%
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.”
10 The disciples said to him,“If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!”
- Mark 10:8-125 verses87%
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.”
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6 But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.
- 1 Cor 7:10-112 verses78%
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 Cor 7:1-44 verses77%
1 Celibacy and Marriage Now with regard to the issues you wrote about:“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
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.
- Deut 24:1-22 verses72%
1 If 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.
2 When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.
- Matt 5:31-322 verses71%
31 Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’
32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
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29 Jesus said,“I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel
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27 The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.
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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.”
- Rom 7:2-32 verses71%
2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.
3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.
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13 And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him.
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18 The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”
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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.
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29 Then Jesus said to them,“I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God’s kingdom
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25 Now 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.
- 1 Cor 11:8-92 verses70%
8 For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.
9 Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for man.
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25 Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
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33 But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,
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7 Or 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.”
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27 God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.
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11 In any case, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.