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Your Spouse 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 45 helpful votes Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Exodus 20:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes “You shall not commit adultery.Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 21 helpful votes Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,Romans 9:23 ESV / 18 helpful votes In order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.Titus 1:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.Mark 10:2-12 ESV / 13 helpful votes And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ …Malachi 2:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”1 Corinthians 7:10-16 ESV / 11 helpful votes To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. …Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.Psalm 127:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.Matthew 5:31-32 ESV / 9 helpful votes “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,1 Corinthians 7:2-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.Matthew 19:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 6 helpful votes Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over
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