Reference: Wife
Easton
The ordinance of marriage was sanctioned in Paradise (Ge 2:24; Mt 19:4-6). Monogamy was the original law under which man lived, but polygamy early commenced (Ge 4:19), and continued to prevail all down through Jewish history. The law of Moses regulated but did not prohibit polygamy. A man might have a plurality of wives, but a wife could have only one husband. A wife's legal rights (Ex 21:10) and her duties (Pr 31:10-31; 1Ti 5:14) are specified. She could be divorced in special cases (De 22:13-21), but could not divorce her husband. Divorce was restricted by our Lord to the single case of adultery (Mt 19:3-9). The duties of husbands and wives in their relations to each other are distinctly set forth in the New Testament (1Co 7:2-5; Eph 5:22-33; Col 3:18-19; 1Pe 3:1-7).
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Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his woman; and they shall be into one flesh.
And Lamech shall take to him two women: the name of the one Adah, and the name of the second, Zillah.
If he shall take to him another, her food and her covering and her cohabitation he shall not take away.
If any man shall take a wife, and went in to her and hated her, And he set pretexts of words against her, and brought up an evil name upon her, and said, I took this woman, and I shall come near to her, and I found in her not a virgin: read more. And the father of the young girl took, and her mother, and brought the signs of virginity of the young girl to the elders of the city to the gate: And the father of the maiden said to the old men, I gave my daughter to this man for a wife and he will hate her, And behold, he set up pretexts of words, saying, I found not in thy daughter the signs of virginity; and these the signs of my daughter's virginity. And they spread the garment before the old men of the city. And the old men of that city took the man and chastised him; And they amerced him a hundred of silver, and gave to the father of the maiden, for he brought out an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be to him for a wife; he shall not be able to send her away all his days. And if this word was the truth, and the signs of virginity not found for the maiden: And they brought the maiden to the door of the house of her father, and the men of her city stoned her with stones and she died; for she did folly in Israel to commit fornication in her father's house: and thou didst put away evil from the midst of thee.
Who shall find a woman of virtue? for her price is far above pearls. The heart of her husband trusted in her, and he shall not want spoil. read more. She rewarded him good and not evil all the days of her life. She sought wool and flax, and she will work in delight with her hands. She was as the ships of the merchant; from far off she will bring her bread. She will rise while yet night, and she will give food to her house, and a portion to her girls. She purposed a field, and he will take it: from the fruit of her hands she planted a vineyard. She girded her loins with strength, and she will strengthen her arms. She tasted that her traffic is good: her light will not go out by night She sent forth her hands upon the spindle, and her hands take hold of the whirl. She spread forth her hands to the poor, and sent forth her hands to the needy. She will not fear for her house from snow, for all her house put on double. She made for herself coverings; byssus and purple her clothing. Her husband was known in the gates, in his sitting with the old men of the land. She made the under garment., and she will sell; and she gave a girdle to the Canaanite. Strength and ornament her clothing; and she will laugh to the last day. She opened her mouth in wisdom, and the law of mercy upon her tongue. She viewed the goings of her house, and the bread of sloth she will not eat Her sons rose up and they will call her happy; her husband, and he will praise her. Many daughters did virtue, and thou wentest up over all of them. Favor a falsehood, and beauty vanity: a woman fearing Jehovah, she shall be praised. Ye shall give her from the fruit of her hands, and her works shall praise her in the gates.
And the Pharisees came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to loose his wife for every cause And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female,
And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female, And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?
And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh? So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate.
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate. They say to him, Why then did Moses charge to give a writing of divorce, and loose her? read more. He says to them that Moses for your hard heart permitted you to loose your wives: and from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, That whoever should loose his wife, except for fornication, and marry another, commits adultery; and he having married the one loosed commits adultery.
And, on account of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband. Let the husband return to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband. read more. The wife of her own body has not power, but the husband: and likewise also the husband of his own body has not power, but the wife. Deprive ye not one another, except somewhat of an agreement for a time, that ye might have leisure for fasting and prayer; and again upon the same ye might come together, lest Satan tempt you for your want of self command.
Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. read more. But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it; That he might consecrate it, having cleansed by the washing of water in the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless. So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He loving his wife, loves himself. For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak to Christ and to the church. But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.
Women, place yourselves under your own husbands, as was permitted in the Lord. Men, love ye the wives, and be not embittered against them.
Hastings
Smith
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