Ephesians 5:31

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“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 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;