Matthew 19:5
and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
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- Genesis 2:21–23 And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
- 1 Corinthians 7:4 The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:2 But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.