Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

A man

Deuteronomy 20:7
And who is the man that is engaged to a woman and has not married her? Let him depart and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would marry her.’
Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
Matthew 19:4
And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
1 Corinthians 7:10
But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband
Ephesians 5:28
So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
Titus 2:4
so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Cheer up

Proverbs 5:18
Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun.
1 Corinthians 7:29
But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;