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ESV — Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:7; 1 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 5:31; Psalm 45:10; 1 Corinthians 7:10-11

and said, u‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and vthe two shall become one flesh’?

h‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,1

Footnotes

[1] 10:7 Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife

16 Or do you not know that he who is joined1 to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, l“The two will become one flesh.”

Footnotes

[1] 6:16 Or who holds fast (compare Genesis 2:24 and Deuteronomy 10:20); also verse 17

31 o“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and pthe two shall become one flesh.”

10 Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear:

forget your people and your father's house,

10 To the married fI give this charge (not I, but the Lord): gthe wife should not separate from her husband 11 (but if she does, hshe should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and gthe husband should not divorce his wife.