Mark 10:6-9

6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’^[a]

7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,^[b]

8 and the two will become one flesh.’^[c] So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

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Cross References 2

1. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 5:2
2. Genesis 2:24; 1 Corinthians 6:16

Footnotes 3

[a]. Gen. 1:27
[b]. Some early manuscripts do not have "and be united to his wife."
[c]. Gen. 2:24

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