Matthew 19:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

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?'

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  • 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."
  • 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."
  • Gen 2:21-24 : 21 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 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.
  • 1 Kgs 11:2 : 2 of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon joined to these in love.
  • Ps 45:10 : 10 Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
  • Ps 63:8 : 8 My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
  • Mark 10:5-9 : 5 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female. 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. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
  • Gen 34:3 : 3 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
  • Deut 4:4 : 4 But you who did cleave to Yahweh your God are alive everyone of you this day.
  • Deut 10:20 : 20 You shall fear Yahweh your God; him shall you serve; and to him shall you cleave, and by his name shall you swear.
  • Deut 11:22 : 22 For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him;
  • 1 Sam 18:1 : 1 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
  • 2 Sam 1:26 : 26 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan: Very pleasant have you been to me: Your love to me was wonderful, Passing the love of women.
  • 1 Cor 7:2 : 2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
  • 1 Cor 7:4 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eph 5:28-33
    6 verses
    94%

    28 Even so ought husbands also 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.

  • Mark 10:5-12
    8 verses
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    5 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

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

    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.

    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."

  • Matt 19:6-10
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    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."

  • Matt 19:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3 Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"

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

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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."

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

  • Matt 5:31-32
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

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

  • 15 Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

  • Deut 24:1-2
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    73%

    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].

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

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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.

  • 2 He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam,{"Adam" and "Man" are spelled with the exact same consonants in Hebrew, so this can be correctly translated either way.} in the day when they were created.

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

  • 34 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

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

  • 29 He said to them, "Most assuredly 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,

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

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

    5 Don'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.

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

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

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

  • 29 Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

  • 27 "You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} 'You shall not commit adultery;'

  • 19 'Honor your father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"