Bible Cross References
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Deuteronomy 20:7
Is there anyone here who is engaged to be married? If so, he is to go home. Otherwise, if he is killed in battle, someone else will marry the woman he is engaged to.'
Genesis 2:24
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one.
Matthew 19:4-6
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Jesus answered, "Haven't you read the scripture that says that in the beginning the Creator made people male and female?
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And God said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one.'
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So they are no longer two, but one. No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together."
Mark 10:6-9
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But in the beginning, at the time of creation, 'God made them male and female,' as the scripture says.
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'And for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife,
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and the two will become one.' So they are no longer two, but one.
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No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together."
1 Corinthians 7:10-15
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For married people I have a command which is not my own but the Lord's: a wife must not leave her husband;
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but if she does, she must remain single or else be reconciled to her husband; and a husband must not divorce his wife.
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To the others I say (I, myself, not the Lord): if a Christian man has a wife who is an unbeliever and she agrees to go on living with him, he must not divorce her.
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And if a Christian woman is married to a man who is an unbeliever and he agrees to go on living with her, she must not divorce him.
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For the unbelieving husband is made acceptable to God by being united to his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made acceptable to God by being united to her Christian husband. If this were not so, their children would be like pagan children; but as it is, they are acceptable to God.
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However, if the one who is not a believer wishes to leave the Christian partner, let it be so. In such cases the Christian partner, whether husband or wife, is free to act. God has called you to live in peace.
Ephesians 5:28
Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:29
(None of us ever hate our own bodies. Instead, we feed them, and take care of them, just as Christ does the church;
Titus 2:4
in order to train the younger women to love their husbands and children,
Titus 2:5
to be self-controlled and pure, and to be good housewives who submit themselves to their husbands, so that no one will speak evil of the message that comes from God.
cheer up
Proverbs 5:18
So be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married---
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Enjoy life with the one you love, as long as you live the useless life that God has given you in this world. Enjoy every useless day of it, because that is all you will get for all your trouble.
1 Corinthians 7:29
What I mean, my friends, is this: there is not much time left, and from now on married people should live as though they were not married;