"You are right when you say you have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the man you are now living with is not your husband. What you say is true."

So if she marries another man while her husband is alive, she is called an adulteress, but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and can marry someone else without being an adulteress.

The husband must give his wife what is due her, and the wife must do the same by her husband.

A wife cannot do as she likes with her own person; it is her husband's; and in the same way a husband cannot do as he likes with his own person; it is his wife's.

and a woman who has a husband who is not a believer, but is willing to live with her, must not divorce her husband.

For the husband who is not a believer is consecrated through union with his wife, and the woman who is not a believer is consecrated through union with her Christian husband, for otherwise your children would be unblessed, but, as it is, they are consecrated.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she pleases so long as he is a Christian.

I feel a divine jealousy about you, for I betrothed you to Christ, to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.

And I saw the new Jerusalem, the holy city, come down out of heaven from God, like a bride dressed and ready to meet her husband.

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if he dies, the marriage law no longer applies to her.

So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

But there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

To those already married my instructions are??nd they are not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to separate from her husband.

If she does separate, she must remain single or else become reconciled to him. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the Lord's work, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but the woman who marries is concerned with worldly affairs, and how she can please her husband.

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, while a woman's head is her husband, and Christ's head is God.

for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, which is his body, and is saved by him.

But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.