Family Tree, Part 3: Leave, Cleave & Become

Published: Aug. 20, 2009, 3:03 p.m.

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(Genesis 2:24)\\xa0(Amplified Bible) \\u201cTherefore a man shall\\nleave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave\\nto his wife, and they shall become one flesh.\\u201d

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(Genesis 2:18) \\u201cThe LORD God said, "It is not good for\\nthe man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."\\u201d

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(Genesis 2:24)\\xa0(Amplified Bible) \\u201cTherefore a man shall\\nleave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife,\\nand they shall become one flesh.\\u201d

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How\\ndo I have a life-giving marriage?

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1.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\nLeave

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\\n(Genesis 2:24)\\xa0(Amplified Bible) \\u201cTherefore a man shall leave his\\nfather and his mother\\u2026\\u201d

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(Matthew 19:29) \\u201cAnd everyone who\\nhas left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or\\nfields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit\\neternal life.\\u201d

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2.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\nCleave

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(Genesis 2:24)\\xa0(Amplified Bible) \\u201cTherefore a man shall\\nleave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his\\nwife\\u2026\\u201d

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(Ephesians 4:3)\\xa0(NLT) \\u201cMake\\nevery effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves\\ntogether with peace. \\u201c

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3.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\nBecome

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(Genesis 2:24)\\xa0(Amplified Bible) \\u201cTherefore a man shall\\nleave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife,\\nand they shall become one flesh.\\u201d

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What\\nare you becoming?\\xa0

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(Hebrews\\n13:4)\\xa0 \\u201cMarriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept\\npure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.\\u201d

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(James 1:17)\\xa0 \\u201cEvery good and perfect gift is from\\nabove\\u2026\\u201d
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(Ephesians 5:22-24) \\u201cWives, submit to your husbands as to\\nthe Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the\\nchurch, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to\\nChrist, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.\\xa0

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(Ephesians 5:25-27) \\u201cHusbands, love your wives, just as\\nChrist loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing\\nher by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself\\nas a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy\\nand blameless.\\u201d

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(Ephesians 5:28-30) \\u201cIn this same way, husbands ought to\\nlove their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.\\nAfter all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just\\nas Christ does the church\\u2014 for we are members of his body.\\u201d

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(Ephesians 5:31-32) "For this reason a man will leave his\\nfather and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one\\nflesh."

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(Ephesians 5:32-33) \\u201cThis is a profound mystery\\u2014but I\\nam talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love\\nhis wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.\\u201d

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