Mark 10:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 6:16 : 16 Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.
  • Eph 5:28 : 28 Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

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  • Matt 19:4-10
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    4And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

    5For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

    6So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

    7They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?

    8He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.

    9And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.

    10The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.

  • Mark 10:9-12
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    9Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.

    10And in the house the disciples put questions to him again about this thing.

    11And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife;

    12And if she herself puts away her husband and takes another, she is false to her husband.

  • Eph 5:28-32
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    28Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

    29For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

    30Because we are parts of his body.

    31For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

    32This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

  • Gen 2:22-25
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    22And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.

    23And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

    24For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

    25And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.

  • Mark 10:6-7
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    6But from the first, male and female made he them.

    7For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

  • 1 Cor 6:15-17
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    15Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

    16Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

    17But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

  • 1 Cor 7:8-11
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    8But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them to be even as I am.

    9But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.

    10But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

    11(Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

  • Mal 2:15
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    15... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

  • Luke 16:18
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    18Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.

  • Job 41:17
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    17The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.

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    31Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose:

    32But I say to you that everyone who puts away his wife for any other cause but the loss of her virtue, makes her false to her husband; and whoever takes her as his wife after she is put away, is no true husband to her.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
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    4The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

    5Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

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    34And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world are married and have wives;

    35But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;

  • Matt 22:30
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    30For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.

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    1If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

  • Gen 2:18
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    18And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him

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    17Then, joining them one to another, make them one stick, so that they may be one in your hand.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11But the woman is not separate from the man, and the man is not separate from the woman in the Lord.

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    27If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.

  • Matt 22:28
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    28When they come back from the dead, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? because they all had her.

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    25When they come back from the dead, they do not get married, but are like the angels in heaven.

  • Prov 5:17
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    17Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

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    4Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

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    8For the man did not come from the woman, but the woman from the man.