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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And the Pharisees came to him to try him, and said, Is it lawful [for a man] to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said, Have you not read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female?
And he answered and said, Have you not read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female? and he said, On this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.
and he said, On this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. So that they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate.
So that they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate. They said to him, Why then did Moses command us to give a bill of divorcement, and put her away? read more. He said to them, Moses, on account of your hardness of heart, allowed you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not so. And I tell you, that whoever puts away his wife, except for adultery, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her that is put away, commits adultery.
but on account of fornications, let each man have his wife, and each woman have her husband. Let the husband render to the wife her due, and in like manner also the wife the husband. read more. The wife has not the right to her body, but the husband; and in like manner the husband has not the right to his body, but the wife. Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence.
Let wives [be subject] to their husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; he is the savior of the body. read more. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also let wives be subject to husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify it, purifying it with the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy and blameless. Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church; for we are members of his body. For this cause 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 of Christ and the church. But do you also, individually, each one so love his wife as himself, and the wife [see] that she reverences the husband.
Wives, be subject to the husbands, as is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love the wives and be not bitter to them.
Hastings
Smith
Wife.
[MARRIAGE]
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