one flesh
What does the Bible say about one flesh ? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
11 passages · most helpful first
24For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.
4And he said to them in response, “Have you not read that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female?” And he said: 5“For this reason, a man shall separate from father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife, and these two shall become one flesh. 6And so, now they are not two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate.”
31“For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.”
16And do you not know that whoever is joined to a harlot becomes one body? “For the two,” he said, “shall be as one flesh.”
18Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. And whoever marries her who has been divorced by her husband commits adultery.
4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
6And so, now they are not two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate.”
9And I say to you, that whoever will have separated from his wife, except because of fornication, and who will have married another, commits adultery, and whoever will have married her who has been separated, commits adultery.”
19Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter toward them.
16If a man has led astray a virgin not yet betrothed, and he has slept with her, he shall pay her dowry and have her as a wife.
11It is a faithful saying: that if we have died with him, we will also live with him. 12If we suffer, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.