Ephesians 5:31 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³¹ “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. [Gen. 2:24.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

Common English Bible

³¹ “This is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two of them will be one body”.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ "For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

Ephesians 5:31 Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Matthew 19:5

and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

1 Corinthians 6:16

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two shall become one flesh.”

Ephesians 5:32

This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church;