Verse 6

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Referenced Verses

• Rom 7:2 : 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.
• Mark 10:9 : 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
• Prov 2:17 : 17 who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.
• Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet you ask,“Why?” The LORD is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.
• 1 Cor 7:10-14 : 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. 12 To the rest I say– I, not the Lord– if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her. 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. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
• Eph 5:28 : 28 In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
• Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.