One Flesh

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →

and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. — read the full passage →

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Let all that you do be done in love.

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.