Genesis 1:27
27 So God created man in his own image,in the image of God he created him;
amale and female he created them.
Genesis 2:20-24
20The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam ▼▼Or the man
there was not found a helper fit for him. 21So the Lord God caused a cdeep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made ▼▼Hebrew built
into a woman and brought her to the man. 23Then the man said, “This at last is ebone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was ftaken out of Man.” ▼
24 hTherefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Matthew 19:4-6
4He answered, i“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5and said, j‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and kthe two shall become one flesh’? 6So they are no longer two but one flesh. lWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”Mark 10:6-8
6But mfrom the beginning of creation, ‘God made them nmale and female.’ 7 o‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, ▼▼Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife
8and qthe two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 1 Corinthians 7:2
2But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
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