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

⁸ 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

⁸ and they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And the two shall become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. [Gen. 2:24.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

Common English Bible

⁸ and the two will be one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ 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

⁸ 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.