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1 Corinthians 7:1 (NIV)

Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

1 Corinthians 13:4 (NIV)

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

1 Corinthians 13:5 (NIV)

It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

1 Peter 3:4 (NIV)

Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.

Mark 10:7 (NIV)

‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,

Ecclesiastes 4:10 (NIV)

If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.

Colossians 3:18 (NIV)

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:9 (NIV)

But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

1 Corinthians 13:6 (NIV)

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

1 Peter 3:3 (NIV)

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes.

1 Peter 3:5 (NIV)

For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands,

1 Peter 3:6 (NIV)

like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.

Mark 10:6 (NIV)

“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’

Proverbs 5:18 (NIV)

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Proverbs 5:19 (NIV)

A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.

Proverbs 31:10 (NIV)

A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.

Ecclesiastes 4:11 (NIV)

Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?

Genesis 2:23 (NIV)

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

1 Samuel 18:19 (NIV)

So when the time came for Merab, Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.

Judges 21:1 (NIV)

The men of Israel had taken an oath at Mizpah: “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”

Malachi 2:16 (NIV)

“The man who hates and divorces his wife,” says the Lord , the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,” says the Lord Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.

1 Corinthians 7:6 (NIV)

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

1 Corinthians 7:8 (NIV)

Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.

1 Corinthians 7:10 (NIV)

To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.