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

Matthew 19:4
And he answering said, Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning, made them male and female?
Mark 10:6
But, from the beginning of the creation, [God] made them male and female.
1 Corinthians 7:10
But to those who are married it is my command, yet not mine, but the Lords: Let not the wife separate herself from her husband,
Ephesians 5:28
In like manner husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself;
Titus 2:4
that they may teach the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Cheer up

1 Corinthians 7:29
But this I say, brethren, the time that remaineth is short; that both they that have wives may be as though they had none;