Mark 10:6-9

6 In the original creation, God made male and female to be together.
7 Because of this, a man leaves father and mother, and in marriage
8 he becomes one flesh with a woman - no longer two individuals, but forming a new unity.
9 Because God created this organic union of the two sexes, no one should desecrate his art by cutting them apart."
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