Mat 19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall beone flesh?

Man in the image of God.

Gen 1:26    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Gen 1:27    So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 1:28    And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Gen 1:29    And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Gen 1:30    And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

Gen 1:31    And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

It's interesting yesterday the PCUSA 221st in General Assembly voted to recreate man in man's own image, http://www.layman.org/ga-approves-sex-marriages-pcusa/

This is predicated on adopting the new cultural standard into the church.

As a result in the church as a whole we have pretty much redefined all of the openning chapter(s) of Genesis.

Do we ever wonder: If a God really created the whole creation in 6 days, just look to science and evolution; or if we really have dominion on the earth, again look to evolution, are we just another animal, or just a part of our global environment program, and now redefining marriage?

Gen 3:1    Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Gen 3:2    And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

Gen 3:3    But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

Gen 3:4    And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Gen 3:5    For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Joh 8:42    Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

Joh 8:43    Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Joh 8:44    Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Joh 8:45    And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

Joh 8:46    Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

Joh 8:47    He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Gen 2:20    And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Gen 2:21    And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

Gen 2:22    And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

Gen 2:23    And Adam 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.

Gen 2:24    Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Gen 2:25    And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

As Jesus reinforced...

Mat 19:5  And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall beone flesh?

Mat 19:6  Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Mar 10:8  And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Likewise Paul through the Holy Spirit.

1Co 6:16  What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

Eph 5:31  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

There is also some hard teaching for men concerning their wives in these passages.

Num 30:1    And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.

Num 30:2    If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

Num 30:3    If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;

Num 30:4    And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

Num 30:5    But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

Num 30:6    And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

Num 30:7    And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

Num 30:8    But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.

Num 30:9    But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

Num 30:10    And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

Num 30:11    And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

Num 30:12    But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; thenwhatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.

Num 30:13    Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

Num 30:14    But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

Num 30:15    But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

Num 30:16    These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.

Hopefully this teaching is tempered by the Word of Gd in the New Testament.

Eph 5:21    Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Eph 5:22    Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Eph 5:23    For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Eph 5:24    Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Eph 5:25    Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Eph 5:26    That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Eph 5:27    That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Eph 5:28    So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Eph 5:29    For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

Eph 5:30    For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

Eph 5:31    For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Eph 5:32    This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Eph 5:33    Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Rev 21:2    And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.