Ephesians 5:31

“Scripture speaks throughout of marriage and its "mystery," its institution and the meaning God has given it, its origin and its end, its various realizations throughout the history of salvation, the difficulties arising from sin and its renewal "in the Lord" in the New Covenant of Christ and the Church.” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 7:39; cf. Eph 5:31-32.

“This is a great mystery, and I mean in reference to Christ and the Church."” — Catechism footnote: Eph 5:25-26, 31-32; Cf. Gen 2:24.

“This consent that binds the spouses to each other finds its fulfillment in the two "becoming one flesh."” — Catechism footnote: Gen 2:24; cf. Mt 10:8; Eph 5:31.

“This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the Church."” — Catechism footnote: Eph 5:31-32.

“For, inasmuch as Adam straightway predicted that “great mystery of Christ and the church,” when he said, “This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and…” — editor's note: Eph. v. 31, 32.

“But when the apostle interprets, “The two shall be (joined) into one flesh” of the Church and Christ, according to the spiritual nuptials of the Church and Christ (for Christ is one, and one is His Church), we are bound to recognise a…” — editor's note: Eph. v. 31.

“…it was declared in the beginning that a man should leave his father and mother and become one flesh with his wife, he applied this to Christ and the church.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 31, 32.

“This is a great mystery.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 31, 32.

“Both (are) brethren, both fellow servants, no difference of spirit or of flesh; nay, (they are) truly “two in one flesh.”” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 24; Matt. xix. 5; Mark x. 8; Eph. v. 31.

“This is a great mystery; but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.”” — editor's note: Cf. Eph. v. 31, 32. Cf. Gen. ii. 24.

“Then we have the passage, “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the twain shall become one flesh,” in explanation of which the Apostle straightway adds, “This mystery is great, but I speak in regard of Christ, and of the Church.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 31; Gen. ii.

““For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be” not as is there said, “of one flesh,” but “of one spirit.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 31, 32.

“Paul in explaining the passage refers it to Christ and the church; making the first Adam a monogamist in the flesh and the second a monogamist in the spirit.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 31, 32.

“This is a great mystery; but I speak concerning Christ and the Church;”—when, I say, the blessed apostle says this, and with his sacred voice testifies to the unity of Christ with the Church, cleaving to one another with…” — editor's note: Eph. v. 31, 32.

“As, for instance, the passage, “and they two shall be in one flesh,” if one interpret it with an eye to lust, He raineth a snare upon the sinner.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 31.

“…consist together in the unity of integrity, and not be separated the one from the other; as in that marriage whereof it is said, “They two shall be one flesh.”” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 24; Eph. v. 31.

“For one Man with His Head and Body is Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the Body and the Members of the Body: two in one Flesh, and in one voice, and in one passion, and, when iniquity shall have passed over, in one rest.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 24; Eph. v. 31.

““No man,” indeed, “ever yet hated his own flesh,” as the apostle says, when giving the precept as to loving one’s wife; but the man is the head of the woman, and Christ is the head of the man.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 25–33.

“For He left ‘father and mother, and clave to his wife, that two might be one flesh.’” — editor's note: Eph. v. 31.

““This is a great mystery,” says the Apostle, “but I speak in Christ and in the Church.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 31, 32.

“This is a great mystery; but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.”” — editor's note: Ephes. v. 31, 32

“For this cause a man shall leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife, and there shall be two in one flesh.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 30, 31, 32.

Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.

Cited together in Catechism §1602.

Cited together in Catechism §1602.

Cited together in Catechism §1602.

Cited together in Catechism §1602.

Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 4.

Cited together in Catechism §1616 and 2 other places.

Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 4.

Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 4.

Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.

Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.

Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.

Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.

Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 11.

Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 11.

Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.

Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.

Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.

Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.

Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.

Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 11.

Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.4.

Cited together in Catechism §1627.

Cited together in Epistles Letter 48.

Cited together in Catechism §1602.

Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49 and 1 other place.

Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.

Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.

Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49.

Cited together in Against Celsus IV.49 and 1 other place.

Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 11.

Matthew 19:5 and Ephesians 5:31 share the same wording (16 words).

Mark 10:7 and Ephesians 5:31 share the same wording (13 words).

Ephesians 5:31 takes up the words of Genesis 2:24 (7 words in common).