15 Didn’t the one God make us with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek?[a] A godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully,[b](A) and do not act treacherously against the wife of your youth.

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  1. Malachi 2:15 Or Did the One not make them? So their flesh and spirit belong to Him, or No one who does this even has a remnant of the Spirit in him; Hb obscure
  2. Malachi 2:15 Lit So guard yourselves in your spirit

15 Has not the one God made you?(A) You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.[a](B) So be on your guard,(C) and do not be unfaithful(D) to the wife of your youth.

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  1. Malachi 2:15 The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.

15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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and He also said:

For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh?(A)[a]

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and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[a]?(A)

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  1. Matthew 19:5 Gen. 2:24

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

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For this reason a man will leave(A)
his father and mother
[and be joined to his wife],[a]
and the two will become one flesh.(B)[b]

So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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  1. Mark 10:7 Other mss omit bracketed text
  2. Mark 10:8 Gn 2:24

‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[a] and the two will become one flesh.’[b](A) So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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  1. Mark 10:7 Some early manuscripts do not have and be united to his wife.
  2. Mark 10:8 Gen. 2:24

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

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16 Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.(A)[a]

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16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”[a](A)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:16 Gen. 2:24

16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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31 For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,(A)
and the two will become one flesh.(B)[a]

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31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[a](A)

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  1. Ephesians 5:31 Gen. 2:24

31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

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