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 to them, Have ye not read, that he who made them, made them male and female from the beginning?
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
1 Corinthians 7:10
The married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband.
Ephesians 5:28
Men ought so to love their wives as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife, loveth himself.
Titus 2:4
That they instruct the young women to be wise, to love their husbands,

Cheer up

1 Corinthians 7:29
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that even they that have wives, be as if they had none: And they that weep, as if they wept not;