Mates

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says. — read the full passage →

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?” — read the full passage →

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.” — read the full passage →

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

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.