Mark 10:8

8 and the two will become one flesh.’^[a] So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Mark 10:8 in Other Translations

8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

8 and the two shall become one flesh. ’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.

8 and the two are united into one.’ Since they are no longer two but one,

8 he becomes one flesh with a woman - no longer two individuals, but forming a new unity.

8 and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

8 and the two will be one. So they are no longer two but one.

8 and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

8 The two of them will become one.'(Genesis 2:24) They are no longer two, but one.

Mark 10:8 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 10:8

And the twain shall be one flesh
This is the remaining part of the citation out of ( Genesis 2:24 ) ; (See Gill on Matthew 19:5);

so then they are no more twain; but one flesh;
as Adam and Eve were both by creation and marriage: and so two persons, a man and woman, being lawfully married together, become one flesh, or "one body", as the Arabic and Persic versions render the phrase; and therefore the wife is to be loved by the husband as his own body, and from whom there should be no separation, until death, but in case of adultery; (See Gill on Matthew 19:6).

Mark 10:8 In-Context

6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’

7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,

8 and the two will become one flesh.’So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

10 When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this.

Cross References

• 1. Genesis 2:24; 1 Corinthians 6:16

Footnotes

• [a] Gen. 2:24