Genesis 2:23

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.”

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,

All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?”

The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

“Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”

When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’ ” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’ ”

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.

Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.

Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.

At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.

Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.”

You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’

Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’ ”

So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse. Peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you.” Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

He said to them, “Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry—he, and those who were with him?

Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner.

Jesus, answering them, said, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,