(Genesis 2:24) Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Based on the creation of men and women, both created in the image of God, they can be partners. The Bible (both the Old Testament and the New Testament) gives the reason for men and women to be husband and wife. On the basis of natural law, we know how God created men and women to be one flesh and how as husband and wife they would conceive and bear children in their image and in the image of God.
Husband and wife are of one body, just as the Church is one body (Eph 5:28-30)
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church– for we are members of his body.
REFLECTION: God’s creation of woman forever symbolizes His designed oneness for a husband and wife (vss. 23-24) How has culture changed our view of that ‘oneness’ in marriage?