One flesh

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A sign and expression of the inseparable union between husband and wife. This is not only physical but emotional, mental and spiritual. It is also used to describe the union between Jesus Christ and the church.

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One flesh describes the inseparable union between husband and wife

Genesis 2:22–24 NASB95
The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
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One flesh refers to sexual union which Scripture describes in various ways

To lie with

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To come together

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To have union or unite with

1 Corinthians 6:15–16 NASB95
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.”
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Natural relations

Romans 1:26–27 NASB95
For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

One flesh expresses an intimacy encouraged by God

Only within heterosexual marriage

Matthew 19:4–6 NASB95
And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
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Intimate relations between members of the same sex are unnatural and wrong

Leviticus 18:22 NASB95
‘You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.
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One flesh describes the union between Jesus Christ and the church

Ephesians 5:31–32 NASB95
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
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