a1 Cor. 11:9; 1 Tim. 2:13
cCited Matt. 19:5; Mark 10:7; 1 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 5:31; [Ps. 45:10; 1 Cor. 7:10, 11]
dGen. 1:27; 2:18, 21-23; 5:2; [ch. 21:16]
eEph. 5:31; Cited from Gen. 2:24
f1 Cor. 6:16; [Mal. 2:15]
g1 Cor. 7:10
hMark 16:14; [Mark 3:5; 6:52; Heb. 3:8]

Genesis 2:18

18Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; aI will make him a helper fit for ▼
▼Or corresponding to; also verse 20
 him.”

Genesis 2:24

24 cTherefore 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, d“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5and said, e‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and fthe two shall become one flesh’? 6So they are no longer two but one flesh. gWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Matthew 19:8

8He said to them, “Because of your hhardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
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