Genesis 2:24
24 aTherefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.Deuteronomy 20:7
7 bAnd is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.’Matthew 19:4-6
4He answered, c“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5and said, d‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and ethe two shall become one flesh’? 6So they are no longer two but one flesh. fWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”Mark 10:6-9
6But gfrom the beginning of creation, ‘God made them hmale and female.’ 7 i‘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 kthe two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 lWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” 1 Corinthians 7:10-15
10To the married mI give this charge (not I, but the Lord): nthe wife should not separate from her husband 11(but if she does, oshe should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and pthe husband should not divorce his wife.12To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. 13If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. 14For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. qOtherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. 15But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you ▼
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sto peace. Ephesians 5:28-29
28In the same way thusbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
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