Matthew 19:5
Good News Translation
And God said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one.'

New Revised Standard Version
and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Contemporary English Version
That's why a man leaves his father and mother and gets married. He becomes like one person with his wife.

New American Bible
and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.

said.

Genesis 2:21-24 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. . . .

Psalm 45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house.

Mark 10:5-9 To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your heart, he wrote you that precept. . . .

Ephesians 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall cleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh.

cleave.

Genesis 34:3 And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words.

Deuteronomy 4:4 But you that adhere to the Lord your God, are all alive until this present day.

Deuteronomy 10:20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name.

Deuteronomy 11:22 For if you keep the commandments which I command you, and do them, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving unto him,

1 Samuel 18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the son of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

2 Samuel 1:26 I grieve for thee, my brother Jonathan: exceeding beautiful, and amiable to me above the love of women. As the mother loveth her only son, so did I love thee.

1 Kings 11:2 Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come into yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to follow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.

Psalm 63:8 My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received me.

Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good,

and they.

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.

1 Corinthians 7:2,4 But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband. . . .

Context
Teachings about Divorce
4Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female? And he said: 5For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh. 6Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What 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.

Malachi 2:15
Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.

Matthew 19:6
Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. 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.

Ephesians 5:31
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall cleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh.

Matthew 19:4
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