Matthew 19:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united firmly (joined inseparably) to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? [Gen. 1:27; 2:24.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ and said, 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

⁵ And God said, ‘Because of this a man should leave his father and mother and be joined together with his wife, and the two will be one flesh.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ "For this reason, a man shall separate from father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife, and these two shall become one flesh.

Matthew 19:5 Cross References

Genesis 34:3

And his being clung to Dinah the daughter of Yaʽ

2 Samuel 1:26

“I am distressed for you, my brother Yehonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wondrous, Surpassing the love of women.

1 Kings 11:2

from the nations of whom יהוה  had said to the children of Yisra’ĕ

Psalm 45:10

Listen, O daughter, and see, And incline your ear, And forget your own people and your father’s house;

Psalm 63:8

My being has closely followed You; Your right hand did uphold me.

Malachi 2:15

And did He not make one? And He had the remnant of the Spirit? And what is the one alone? He seeks a seed of Elohim. So you shall guard your spirit, and let none act treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Matthew 19:6

“So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what Elohim has joined together, let man not separate.”

Romans 12:9

Let love be without hypocrisy. Shrink from what is wicked, cling to what is good.

1 Corinthians 6:16

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a whore is one body? For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.”

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of whoring, let each one have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Ephesians 5:31

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

Deuteronomy 10:20

“Fear יהוה  your Elohim. Serve Him, and cling to Him, and swear by His Name.

Deuteronomy 11:22

‘For if you diligently guard all these commands which I command you, to do it, to love יהוה  your Elohim, to walk in all His ways, and to cling to Him,

Deuteronomy 4:4

“But you who are clinging to יהוה  your Elohim are alive today, every one of you.

1 Samuel 18:1

And it came to be, when he had ended speaking to Sha’ul, that the being of Yehonathan was knit to the being of Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 25:43

Dawiḏ