Deuteronomy 24:5

“When a man takes a bride, he must not go out with the army or be liable for any duty. He is free to stay at home for one year, so that he can bring joy to the wife he has married.

Deuteronomy 20:7

Has any man become engaged to a woman and not married her? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise he may die in battle and another man marry her.’

Proverbs 5:18

Let your fountain be blessed,
and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.

Genesis 2:24

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life, which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle under the sun.

Matthew 19:4-6

“Haven’t you read,” He replied, “that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female,”

Mark 10:6-9

But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.

1 Corinthians 7:10-15

I command the married—not I, but the Lord—a wife is not to leave her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:29

And I say this, brothers: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,

Ephesians 5:28-29

In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Titus 2:4-5

so they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children,

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Summary

Deuteronomy 24:5

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

A man

Titus 2:4

Cheer up

Proverbs 5:18

Ecclesiastes 9:9

1 Corinthians 7:29

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