and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be one'?
Thus they are no longer two, but `one'! What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.«
Let your love be perfectly sincere. Regard with horror what is evil; cling to what is right.
Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, »The two shall become one.«
But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.
A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights.
»For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one.«