Matthew 19:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob; he loved the maiden and spoke tenderly to her.

2 Samuel 1:26

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

1 Kings 11:2

from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods”; Solomon clung to these in love.

Psalm 45:10

Hear, O daughter, consider, and incline your ear; forget your people and your father's house;

Psalm 63:8

My soul clings to thee; thy right hand upholds me.

Malachi 2:15

Has not the one God made and sustained for us the spirit of life? And what does he desire? Godly offspring. So take heed to yourselves, and let none be faithless to the wife of his youth.

Matthew 19:6

So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.”

Romans 12:9

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good;

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.”

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:4

For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.

Ephesians 5:31

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

Deuteronomy 10:20

You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve him and cleave to him, and by his name you shall swear.

Deuteronomy 11:22

For if you will be careful to do all this commandment which I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and cleaving to him,

Deuteronomy 4:4

but you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive this day.

1 Samuel 18:1

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 25:43

David also took Ahino-am of Jezreel; and both of them became his wives.