So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
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