Matthew 19:5

New American Bible - revised edition

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’?

Cross References

Genesis 34:3

He was strongly attracted to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and was in love with the young woman. So he spoke affectionately to her.

2 Samuel 1:26

I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother! Most dear have you been to me; More wondrous your love to me than the love of women.

1 Kings 11:2

from nations of which the Lord had said to the Israelites: You shall not join with them and they shall not join with you, lest they turn your hearts to their gods. But Solomon held them close in love.

Psalm 45:10

Daughters of kings are your lovely wives; a princess arrayed in Ophir’s gold comes to stand at your right hand.

Psalm 63:8

You indeed are my savior, and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy.

Malachi 2:15

Did he not make them one, with flesh and spirit? And what does the One require? Godly offspring! You should be on guard, then, for your life, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

Matthew 19:6

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”

Romans 12:9

Let love be sincere; hate what is evil, hold on to what is good;

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.”

1 Corinthians 7:2

but because of cases of immorality every man should have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:4

A wife does not have authority over her own body, but rather her husband, and similarly a husband does not have authority over his own body, but rather his wife.

Ephesians 5:31

“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.”

Deuteronomy 10:20

The Lord, your God, shall you fear, and him shall you serve; to him hold fast and by his name shall you swear.

Deuteronomy 11:22

For if you are careful to observe this entire commandment I am giving you, loving the Lord, your God, following his ways exactly, and holding fast to him,

Deuteronomy 4:4

but you, who held fast to the Lord, your God, are all alive today.

1 Samuel 18:1

By the time David finished speaking with Saul, Jonathan’s life became bound up with David’s life; he loved him as his very self.

1 Samuel 25:43

David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. Thus both of them were his wives.