...Live happily with the woman
you love through the fleeting days of your life, for the wife God gives
you is your best reward down here for all your earthly toil.
Ecclesiastics 9:9
..."The laws of Moses said,'You
shall not commit adultery!' But I say: Anyone who even looks at a woman
with lust in his eye has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
So if your eye -- even if it is your best eye! -- causes you to lust, gouge
it out and throw it away. Better for part of you to be destroyed than for
all of you to be cast into hell."
Matthew 5:27-30
...Honor your marriage and its
vows, and be pure; for God will surely punish all those who are immoral
or commit adultery.
Hebrews 13:4
...Drink from your own well,
my son -- be faithful and true to your wife.
Proverbs 5:15
...Be happy, yes, rejoice in
the wife of your youth. Let her breasts and tender embrace satisfy you.
Let her love alone fill you with delight. Why delight yourself with prostitutes,
embracing what isn't yours? For God is closely watching you, and
he weighs carefully everything you do. The wicked man is doomed by his
own sins; they are ropes that catch and hold him. He shall die because
he will not listen to the truth; he has let himself be led away into incredible
folly.
Proverbs 5:15-23
...You husbands must be careful
of your wives, being thoughtful of their needs and honoring them as the
weaker sex. Remember that you and your wife are partners in receiving God's
blessings, and if you don't treat her as you should, your prayers will
not get ready answers.
1 Peter 3:7
...These older woman must train
the younger woman to live quietly, to love their husbands and their children
and to be sensible and clean minded, spending their time in their own homes,
being kind and obedient to their husbands so that Christian faith can't
be spoken against by those who know them.
Titus 2:4-5
...But anyone who won't care
for his own relatives when they need help, especially those living in his
own family, has no right to say he is a Christian. Such a person is worse
than the heathen.
1 Timothy 5:8
...You wives, submit yourselves
to your husbands, for that is what the Lord has planned for you. And you
husbands must be loving and kind to your wives and not bitter against them
nor harsh.
Colossians 3:18-19
...Honor Christ by submitting
to each other. You wives must submit to your husbands' leadership in the
same way you submit to the Lord. For a husband is in charge of his
wife in the same way Christ is in charge of his body the Church. (He gave
his very life to take care of it and be it's Savior!) So you wives must
willingly obey your husbands in everything, just as the Church obeys Christ.
And you husbands, show the same kind of love to your wives as Christ showed
to the Church when he died for her, to make her holy and clean, washed
by baptism and God's Word; so that he could give her to himself as a glorious
Church without a single spot or wrinkle or any other blemish, being holy
and without a single fault. That is how the husbands should treat their
wives, loving them as parts of themselves. For since a man and his wife
are now one, a man is really doing himself a favor and loving himself when
he loves his wife! No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it,
just as Christ cares for his body the Church, of which we are parts. (That
the husband and wife are one body is proved by the Scripture, which says,"A
man must leave his father and mother when he marries so that he can be
perfectly joined to his wife, and the two shall be one.") I know this is
hard to understand, but it is an illustration of the way we are the parts
of the body of Christ. So again I say, a man must love his wife as a part
of himself; and the wife must see to it that she deeply respects her husband
-- obeying, praising, and honoring him.
Ephesians 5:21-31
...The man should give his wife
all that is her right as a married woman, and the wife should do the same
for her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:3