Deuteronomy 24:5

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.

A man

Titus 2:4

Cheer up

Proverbs 5:18

Ecclesiastes 9:9

1 Corinthians 7:29

Bible References

A man

And who is the man that hath betrothed a wife and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, - lest he die in the battle, and, another man, take her.

For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

And, he, answering, said - Did ye never read - He who created at the beginning, Male and female, made them, -

But, from the beginning of creation, male and female, made he them;

To the married, however, I give charge - not, I, but the Lord, - that, a wife, from her husband, do not depart, -

So, ought the husbands also to be loving their own wives, as their own bodies, - he that loveth his own wife, loveth himself,

That they may constrain the young women to be, lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

Cheer up

Let thy well-spring be blessed, - and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth: -

Enjoy life, with thy wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity, - for, that, is thy portion in life, and in thy toil wherewith, thou, art toiling under the sun.

But, this, I say - the opportunity is, contracted for what remaineth - in order that, they who have wives, may be, as though they had none,