Catholic Public Domain Version
"“For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.” "
— Ephesians 5:31, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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 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 a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."”
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall cleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh.”
“For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
“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.”
So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but instead he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also does to the Church.
For we are a part of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.
“For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.”
This is a great Sacrament. And I am speaking in Christ and in the Church.
Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband.