But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
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