Mark 10:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

and the two of them will [then] become one flesh [i.e., united in such a close relationship as to constitute one body], so that [upon becoming husband and wife] they no longer function as two persons but as one body.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And the two shall become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. [Gen. 2:24.]

American Standard Version (1901)

and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

Common English Bible

and the two will be one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And these two shall be one in flesh. And so, they are now, not two, but one flesh.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh.

Mark 10:8 Cross References

Mark 10:9

Therefore, those whom God so joins together [in the marriage bond], no person must ever separate.”

1 Corinthians 6:16

Or, do you not know that the person who is joined to a prostitute is one body [with her, physically]? For God says [Gen. 2:24], “The two will become one flesh” [i.e., united in such a close relationship as to practically constitute one body]

Ephesians 5:28

In the same way also, husbands should love their own wives as they love their own bodies. The man who loves his own wife [actually] loves himself.