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’?

²¹ So the Lord God caused a ^(A)deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. ²² And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made^[a] into a woman and brought her to the man. ²³ Then the man said,

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

⁴ For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

² But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

^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.”

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.”

⁵ And Jesus said to them, “Because of your ^(A)hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. ⁶ But ^(B)from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them ^(C)male and female.’ ^7 (D)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,^{[a] 8} and ^(E)the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. ^9 (F)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Marks of the True Christian

^9 (A)Let love be genuine. ^(B)Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.