Husband and Wife are One Flesh

“But answering, He said to them, Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning "created them male and female"? And He said, "For this reason a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate.” (Mat 19:4-6, LITV)

Marriage is a special relationship from God, which is between one man and one woman. Husband and wife always need each other because they are husband and wife-they are never separate. The Lord Jesus Christ says that husband and wife are one flesh-God sees them as one, not two, but joined together as one flesh. The husband belongs to the wife, and the wife belongs to the husband. The Bible says, “The wife does not have authority of her own body, but the husband. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.” (1Cor 7:4, LITV)

Marriage is a unique and special relationship from the Lord. There is no other relationship on this earth where two become one flesh-only the relationship of husband and wife.

Husband and wife are never independent from each other, just like the head is never independent from the body. The head needs the body, and the body needs the head. You can never separate them, they need each other. The same for husband and wife-they always need each other.

Husband and wife are to love each other and cultivate that love for each other, and work together in the roles they have been given by God taught in the Bible- the husband as the head of his wife (Ephesians 5:22-23), and the wife as the helper to her husband (Genesis 2:18). They are to function in a way which pleases God, and glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.