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And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 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? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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Matthew 19:4-6 • KJVJesus affirms the divine design of marriage as a permanent union between a man and a woman. He emphasizes the sacred nature of marriage as a covenant that should not be broken by human intervention.