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
What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her."
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Matthew 19:4
He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from 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 the married I command -- not I, but the Lord -- that the wife not leave her husband
Ephesians 5:28
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Titus 2:4
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Cheer up

Proverbs 5:18
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
1 Corinthians 7:29
But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;