⁸ and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

¹⁶ Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

²⁴ Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

²⁸ Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.