Matthew 19:5
“And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?”
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
Cross-References
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
“And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;”
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
“The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.”
“Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”