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- For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
- So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
- Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
- Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
- Do everything in love.
- 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.
- 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.”
- He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.