Matthew 19:5-6

Teaching About Divorce

⁵ and said, _u 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and _v the two shall become one flesh'? ⁶ So they are no longer two but one flesh. _w What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

1. Cross References
   Ephesians 5:31
   "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
   Genesis 2:24
   Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 6:16
   Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh.
   Malachi 2:15
   Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 2:24
   Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 7:10
   To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband