¹⁶ Or do you not know that he who is joined^[a] to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, ^(A)“The two will become one flesh.”

^24 (A)Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

^31 (A)“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and ^(B)the two shall become one flesh.”

⁸ and ^(A)the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.

⁵ and said, ^(A)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and ^(B)the two shall become one flesh’? ⁶ So they are no longer two but one flesh. ^(C)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”