24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
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The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? …
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. …
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. …
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-25)Here we have, I. The making of the woman, to be a help-meet for Adam. This was done upon the sixth day, as was also the placing of Adam in paradise, though it is here mentioned after an account of the seventh day’s rest; but what was said in general (Gen. 1:27), that God made man male and female, is more distinctly related here. Observe, 1. That Adam was first formed, then Eve (1 Tim. 2:13), and s…
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