Ephesians 5:31

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.

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

[Or] do you not know that anyone who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For “the two,” it says, “will become one flesh.”

Ephesians 5:32

This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.