Matthew 19:5

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Matthew 19:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

4 Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’

5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”

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Genesis 2:21

So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.

Genesis 2:22

And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.

Genesis 2:23

And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”

Genesis 2:24

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Psalms 45:10

Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,

Mark 10:5

But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.

Mark 10:6

However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

Mark 10:7

‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,

Mark 10:8

and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Mark 10:9

Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

Ephesians 5:31

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

Genesis 34:3

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Deuteronomy 4:4

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Deuteronomy 10:20

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Deuteronomy 11:22

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1 Samuel 18:1

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2 Samuel 1:26

I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.

1 Kings 11:2

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Romans 12:9

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1 Corinthians 6:16

Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:4

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