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Does the Bible Teach Soulmates? No — and 18 Verses on What It Says Instead

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  • No, Scripture does not teach that one particular person was made for you. The idea of a soulmate goes back to Plato’s Symposium, not to the Bible.
  • Genesis 2:24 says a couple become one flesh, as the result of leaving and holding fast — both things a person does on purpose.
  • Isaac married Rebekah and then loved her (Genesis 24:67): the love followed the commitment.
  • Amos 3:3 makes agreement, not chemistry, the condition of walking together.
  • Every item on Paul’s list in 1 Corinthians 13 is something a person does, not a feeling.

No, the Bible does not teach that one particular person was made for each of us. The idea of a soulmate goes back to Plato’s Symposium, where Aristophanes tells a story of humans split in two and searching for their other halves. Scripture describes marriage as something a man and a woman enter and keep: Genesis says a couple become one flesh, and Proverbs calls a good wife a gift from the Lord without suggesting there was only one possible…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version and the New International Version, following the renderings already carried on this page.

The idea of two halves of one soul seeking each other comes from the speech of Aristophanes in Plato’s Symposium, not from Scripture.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 does not name the third strand; the reading of it as God in a marriage is a later Christian application.

Rebekah is chosen by Abraham’s servant against a list of conditions at Genesis 24:12-21.

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