Matthew 19:5

James Moffatt - New Testament

said, Hence a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and the pair shall be one flesh?

Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:4

the wife cannot do as she pleases with her body — her husband has power, and in the same way the husband cannot do as he pleases with his body — his wife has power.

1 Corinthians 7:2

but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.

Ephesians 5:31

Therefore shall a man leave father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the pair shall be one flesh.

1 Corinthians 6:16

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body (for the pair, it is said, shall become one flesh),

Romans 12:9

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

Matthew 19:6

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has joined, then, man must not separate."