Deuteronomy 24:5

“When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out [to fight] with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home for one year and shall bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

Deuteronomy 20:7

And who is the man who is engaged (legally promised) to a woman and has not married her? Let him go and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would marry her.’

Proverbs 5:18

Let your fountain (wife) be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity],
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Genesis 2:24

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given you under the sun—all the days of vanity and futility. For this is your reward in life and in your work in which you have labored under the sun.

Matthew 19:4-6

He replied, “Have you never read that He who created them from 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

But to the married [believers] I give instructions—not I, but the Lord—that the wife is not to separate from her husband,

1 Corinthians 7:29

But I say this, believers: the time has been shortened, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they did not;

Ephesians 5:28-29

Even so husbands should and are morally obligated to love their own wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Titus 2:4-5

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

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