Matthew 19:5

English Standard Version

5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? (Ge 2:24; Mal 2:15; 1Co 6:16; Eph 5:31) 

New International Version

5 and said, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh”? (Ge 2:24) 

New International Reader’s Version

5 He said, “That’s why a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. The two will become one.” (Ge 2:24) 

King James Version

5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 

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