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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Genesis 2:23, 24

And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.” / For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Exodus 22:16, 17

If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife. / If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Leviticus 18:6–18

None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD. / You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her. / You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Leviticus 20:14, 17, 19–21

If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you. / If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity. / You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Leviticus 21:1, 7, 13–15

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people, / A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God. / The woman he marries must be a virgin.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Numbers 36:8

Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any Israelite tribe must marry within a clan of the tribe of her father, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Deuteronomy 21:10–14

When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive, / if you see a beautiful woman among them, and you desire her and want to take her as your wife, / then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Deuteronomy 24:1–5

If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house. / If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife, / and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies,

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 18:22

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Proverbs 21:9, 19

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife. / Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Hosea 2:19, 20

So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion. / And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.”

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Malachi 2:13–16

And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands. / Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. / Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 5:31, 32

It has also been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ / But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Mark 6:17, 18

For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married. / For John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife!”

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Mark 10:2–12

Some Pharisees came to test Him. “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” they inquired. / “What did Moses command you?” He replied. / They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 19:2–9

Large crowds followed Him, and He healed them there. / Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” / Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 16:18

Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Romans 7:1–3

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? / For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. / So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Corinthians 6:16

Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Corinthians 7:1–40

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations. / But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. / The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Corinthians 9:5

Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Corinthians 11:11, 12

In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. / For just as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Timothy 3:2, 12

An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, / A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Timothy 4:1, 3

Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, / They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Timothy 5:14

So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.

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Marriage: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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