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The central theme in these lyrics is simple and uncompromising: marriage is a divine covenant in which two become one flesh, and what God has joined, no man has the right to separate. The song takes its language primarily from Jesus’ teaching on marriage and divorce.
Let us look at what the Word of God says. The key statement is in:
> “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
> — Matthew 19:6
And Paul, by the Holy Spirit, expands this in relation to Christ and the Church:
> “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her.”
> — Ephesians 5:25
> “Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
> — Ephesians 5:33
The lyrics confront us with the stark words of Jesus concerning divorce (Matthew 5 and 19). He does not lower the standard. He raises it. He exposes the heart. The issue in marriage is not merely law, not merely ceremony, not merely culture. It is the heart, the covenant, and the spiritual reality of becoming “one flesh.”
In our time, marriage has been cheapened, redefined, and often discarded as disposable. But heaven has not changed its mind. The Lord still says: “What God has joined together, let no one separate.” This teaching is meant to renew our minds, to confront hardness of heart, and to offer the grace of God to walk out covenant fidelity in a fallen world.
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The main references behind these lyrics are found in Matthew 19:3–9 and parallel passages, where Jesus is confronted by the Pharisees on the issue of divorce, and in Ephesians 5:22–33, where Paul unfolds the mystery of marriage in relation to Christ and the Church.
### a. Jesus Confronts the Pharisees (Matthew 19)
> “The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?’
> And He answered and said to them, ‘Have you not read that He who made them at 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 then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.’
> They said to Him, ‘Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?’
> He said to them, ‘Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.’”
> — Matthew 19:3–8
The Pharisees came “testing Him.” Their concern was not truth, but legal argument. Various rabbinic schools disputed what constituted legitimate grounds for divorce. Some had broadened the permission to almost anything displeasing in the wife. Jesus answers not by entering their debate but by going back to Genesis—back to God’s original design.
He reminds them that:
1. God created them male and female.
2. God established a pattern: leave – cleave – become one flesh.
3. What God joins, man must not separate.
When they appeal to Moses and the certificate of divorce (Deuteronomy 24:1–4), Jesus corrects their misunderstanding. Moses did not command divorce; he permitted it. Why? “Because of the hardness of your hearts.” But Jesus makes it clear: “from the beginning it was not so.” God’s original will was lifelong covenant union.
Then He states the hard word:
> “And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
> — Matthew 19:9
This is nearly identical to the refrain in the lyrics.
### b. Jesus on the Mount (Matthew 5)
The repeated lines in the song echo Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount:
> “Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’
> But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.”
> — Matthew 5:31–32
Again, Jesus intensifies the Law. The Law dealt with the outward act and its regulation. Jesus exposes the inward condition and the spiritual consequences.
### c. Paul and the Mystery of Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5)
Paul, addressing a Gentile church surrounded by immorality, lifts marriage from a human arrangement to a divine mystery:
> “For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.
> ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become
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