VERSE STUDY • KJV

Ephesians 5:31

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.

Read it in 5 translations

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.

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

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

‘for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be—the two—for one flesh;’

28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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

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

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.

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

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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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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