Matthew 19:5

The Passion Translation

and ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and live with his wife. And the two will become one flesh.’

Cross References

Genesis 34:3

His heart was drawn to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter, so he sought to win her affection and spoke tenderly to her.

Psalm 45:10

Now listen, daughter, pay attention, and forget about your past. Put behind you every attachment to the familiar, even those who once were close to you!

Psalm 63:8

With passion I pursue and cling to you. Because I feel your grip on my life, I keep my soul close to your heart.

Matthew 19:6

From then on, they are no longer two, but united as one. So what God unites let no one divide!”

Romans 12:9

Let the inner movement of your heart always be to love one another, and never play the role of an actor wearing a mask. Despise evil and embrace everything that is good and virtuous.

1 Corinthians 6:16

Aren’t you aware of the fact that when anyone sleeps with a prostitute he becomes a part of her, and she becomes a part of him? For it has been declared: The two become a single body.

1 Corinthians 7:2

Perhaps. But because of the danger of immorality, each husband should have sexual intimacy with his wife and each wife should have sexual intimacy with her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:4

Neither the husband nor the wife have exclusive rights to their own bodies, but those rights are to be surrendered to the other.

Ephesians 5:31

For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and lovingly hold to his wife, since the two have become joined as one flesh.