Genesis 2:24

Marriage is defined as a man and woman leaving, joining, and becoming one flesh. This verse establishes the lasting pattern for marriage.

Cross-references · 20

• Matt 19:3–9The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
• Eph 5:28–31So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
• Mark 10:6–12But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
• Rom 7:2For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
• 1 Pet 3:1–7Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
• 1 Cor 6:16–17What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
• 1 Cor 7:2–4Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
• Prov 31:10Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
• Mal 2:14–16Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
• 1 Cor 7:10–11And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
• Prov 12:4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
• Lev 22:12–13If the priest’s daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
• Ps 45:10Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
• 1 Tim 5:14I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
• Gen 24:58–59And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
• Deut 4:4But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
• Deut 10:20Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
• Josh 23:8But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.
• Gen 31:14–15And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
• Acts 11:23Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

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