Mark 10:8
Good News Translation
and the two will become one.' So they are no longer two, but one.

New Revised Standard Version
and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Contemporary English Version
He becomes like one person with his wife. Then they are no longer two people, but one.

New American Bible
and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh.

one flesh.

1 Corinthians 6:16 Or know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is made one body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

Ephesians 5:28 So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Context
Teachings about Divorce
7For this cause, a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife. 8And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. 9What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.…
Cross References
Genesis 2:24
Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

Mark 10:9
What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.

1 Corinthians 6:16
Or know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is made one body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

Mark 10:7
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