⁴ “Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’^[a]”

¹⁰ For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

The Descendants of Adam

5 This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings,^[a] he made them to be like himself. ² He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them “human.”

⁶ But ‘God made them male and female’^[a] from the beginning of creation.

²⁴ Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.

²¹ So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs^[a] and closed up the opening. ²² Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man.

²³ “At last!” the man exclaimed.

²⁴ This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

²⁵ Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.

Christ Is Supreme