The two shall become ONE FLESH

[TonyChanYT]

Genesis 2:

24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

This is a physical and spiritual reality.

In Matthew 19, the Pharisees asked Jesus about divorce. Jesus replied:

5b ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Jesus affirmed the seriousness of this one flesh reality. God is involved in the process of joining.

What if you had sex before you were married?

Then, one needs to repent.

What if you had other partners? Are you one flesh with the past partners you didn’t marry?

Paul explained in 1 Cor 6:

16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”

Having sexual intercourse with anyone, including a prostitute, is being one flesh. Paul extended that concept to the church spiritually:

17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

Eph 5:

31“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

If someone has had premarital sex and the two became “one flesh,” would there be a way to break that connection if they separated and married other people?

The person needs to repent of the sin of premarital sex.

Sexual intercourse is a serious thing in the eyes of God physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Paul used that as a type of union with Christ and the church. It is serious.