⁸ and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.^(A)

²⁸ In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

²⁴ Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.^(A)

¹⁶ Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, “The two shall be one flesh.”^(A)