Genesis 2:24
What is written? (ESV)
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
What does it say?
Man shall leave his parents and cling to his wife, becoming one flesh.
What is its immediate context?
After creating the world and everything in it, God creates man, and from the man (his rib) creates woman. Seeing this “helper fit for him” (vs 18), man calls her “Woman, because she was taken out of man” (23).
How Genesis 2:24 is applied across Bible answers
Is a homosexual lifestyle sinful?
God established that one man is joined to one woman at creation.
What is Biblical marriage?
Man and woman were created by God for each other, and become "one flesh" in marriage.
