and the twain shall become one flesh: so that they are no more twain, but one flesh.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: