Mat 19:4-5, Eph 5:28 | ESV | STEP | He answered , Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female ,

a Gen. 1:27; 2:18, 21-23; 5:2; [ch. 21:16]

Matthew 19:4-5

4 He answered, ^a“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ^b‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and ^cthe two shall become one flesh’?

Ephesians 5:28

28 In the same way ^dhusbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.