Ephesians 5:31

World English Bible (2000)

"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
  • Matt 19:5 : 5 and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'
  • Mark 10:7-8 : 7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, 8 and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
  • 1 Cor 6:16 : 16 Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 19:4-7
    4 verses
    94%

    4He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

    5and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

    6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

    7They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"

  • Gen 2:22-25
    4 verses
    93%

    22He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

    23The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man."

    24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

  • Mark 10:6-9
    4 verses
    92%

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

    7For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

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

    9What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

  • Eph 5:32-33
    2 verses
    87%

    32This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

    33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

  • Eph 5:27-30
    4 verses
    83%

    27that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

    28Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

    29For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

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

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

    15Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

    16Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

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

    18Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

  • Eph 5:22-25
    4 verses
    75%

    22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

    23For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

    24But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

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

  • Matt 5:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    31"It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'

    32but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
    4 verses
    74%

    2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

    4The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

    5Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

    10But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband

    11(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

  • Mark 10:11
    71%

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

  • Deut 24:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].

  • Mal 2:15
    71%

    15Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

  • Gen 2:18
    70%

    18Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

  • 1 Cor 11:11
    69%

    11Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

  • Matt 22:25
    69%

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

  • Prov 5:18
    69%

    18Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

  • Heb 13:4
    69%

    4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

  • Matt 19:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."

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

  • Rom 12:5
    68%

    5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    68%

    27Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

  • Deut 22:30
    68%

    30A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

  • Luke 18:29
    68%

    29He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

  • Luke 16:18
    68%

    18Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.