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

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

and great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh. — read the full passage →

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him. — read the full passage →

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah all the days of Jehoiada the priest. — read the full passage →

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. — read the full passage →

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Let love of the brethren continue. — read the full passage →

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery. — read the full passage →

There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; — read the full passage →

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beer-sheba. — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

Let all that ye do be done in love.

And he shall take a wife in her virginity. — read the full passage →

Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, mybride; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →

For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

and the second took her, and died, leaving no seed behind him; and the third likewise: — read the full passage →

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters: and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find? — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. — read the full passage →

A man’s heart deviseth his way; But Jehovah directeth his steps.

Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou becamest mine.

for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man: — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

in like manner the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. — read the full passage →

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

Thou art all fair, my love; And there is no spot in thee.

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →