Mark 10:7

World English Bible (2000)

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

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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.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."
  • Matt 19:5-6 : 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?' 6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

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  • Eph 5:28-33
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    28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Gen 2:22-25
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    22 He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

    23 The 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."

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

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

  • Matt 19:4-10
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    4 He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

    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?'

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

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

    8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

    9 I 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."

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

  • Mark 10:8-12
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    87%

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

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

    10 In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.

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

    12 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

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

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
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    10 But 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.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-4
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    1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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

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

    4 The 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.

  • Deut 24:1-2
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    1 When 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.

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

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    31 "It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'

    32 but 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.

  • Mark 10:29
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    29 Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27 Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
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    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."

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

    3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

  • 1 Cor 7:13
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    13 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

  • Gen 2:18
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    18 Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

  • Mal 2:15
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    15 Did 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.

  • Luke 18:29
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    29 He 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,

  • Matt 22:25
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    25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.

  • 1 Cor 11:8-9
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    8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

    9 for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

  • Eph 5:25
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    25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

  • 1 Cor 7:33
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    33 but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

  • Deut 20:7
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    7 What man is there who has pledged to be married 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."

  • Gen 1:27
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    27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.