Ephesians 5:31

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 2:24 : 24 therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.
  • Matt 19:5 : 5 and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?
  • Mark 10:7-8 : 7 on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, 8 and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;
  • 1 Cor 6:16 : 16 have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 19:4-7
    4 verses
    94%

    4And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made `them', from the beginning a male and a female made them,

    5and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?

    6so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

    7They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'

  • Gen 2:22-25
    4 verses
    93%

    22And Jehovah God buildeth up the rib which He hath taken out of the man into a woman, and bringeth her in unto the man;

    23and the man saith, `This `is' the `proper' step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;

    24therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

    25And they are both of them naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves.

  • Mark 10:6-9
    4 verses
    92%

    6but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

    7on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

    8and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

    9what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

  • Eph 5:32-33
    2 verses
    87%

    32this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

    33but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

  • Eph 5:27-30
    4 verses
    83%

    27that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

    28so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

    29for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

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

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

    15Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!

    16have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

    17And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;

    18flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

  • Eph 5:22-25
    4 verses
    75%

    22The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

    23because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

    24but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also `are' the wives to their own husbands in everything.

    25The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

  • Matt 5:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    31`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce;

    32but I -- I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-5
    4 verses
    74%

    2and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

    3to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

    4the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

    5Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

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

    10and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

    11but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

  • Mark 10:11
    71%

    11and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;

  • Deut 24:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1`When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given `it' into her hand, and sent her out of his house,

    2and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another man's,

  • Mal 2:15
    71%

    15And He did not make one `only', And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what `is' the one `alone'! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

  • Gen 2:18
    70%

    18And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.'

  • 1 Cor 11:11
    69%

    11but neither `is' a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,

  • Matt 22:25
    69%

    25`And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;

  • Prov 5:18
    69%

    18Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

  • Heb 13:4
    69%

    4honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

  • Matt 19:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

    10His disciples say to him, `If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'

  • Rom 12:5
    68%

    5so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    68%

    27Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

  • Deut 22:30
    68%

    30`A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.

  • Luke 18:29
    68%

    29and he said to them, `Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,

  • Luke 16:18
    68%

    18`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.