The Marriage Ceremony

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  1. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
  2. He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
  3. The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”
  4. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
  5. But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
  6. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”
  7. Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ …
  8. Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
  9. Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.