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Ephesians 5:31

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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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  1. Ephesians 5:29

    For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

  2. Ephesians 5:30

    For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

  3. Ephesians 5:32

    This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

  4. Ephesians 5:33

    Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.