Jesus himself said: “He who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh ’... So that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
और जबकि ऐसी आत्यंतिक स्थितियाँ हैं जहाँ शायद तलाक़ या अलहदगी पाने की अनुमति दी जाती है, बाइबल कहती है कि सामान्यतः विवाह - बन्धन ज़िदगी भर के लिए है ।