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 19:3–9Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
• Eph 5:28–31Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
• Mark 10:6–12But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
• Rom 7:2For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
• 1 Pet 3:1–7In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
• 1 Cor 6:16–17Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”
• 1 Cor 7:2–4But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
• Prov 31:10Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
• Mal 2:14–16Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
• 1 Cor 7:10–11But to the married I command — not I, but the Lord — that the wife not leave her husband
• Prov 12:4A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
• Lev 22:12–13If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
• Ps 45:10Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.
• 1 Tim 5:14I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
• Gen 24:58–59They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.”
• Deut 4:4But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.
• Deut 10:20You shall fear Yahweh your God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
• Josh 23:8but hold fast to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.
• Gen 31:14–15Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
• Acts 11:23who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

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