Genesis 2:24
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
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- Matthew 19:3
"The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?"
Read in chapter → - Ephesians 5:28
"So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself."
Read in chapter → - Mark 10:6
"But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female."
Read in chapter → - Romans 7:2
"For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband."
Read in chapter → - 1 Peter 3:1
"Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;"
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 7:2
"Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 6:16
"What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 31:10
"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies."
Read in chapter → - Malachi 2:14
"Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 7:10
"And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:"
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