Bible Cross References
His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone, let Us make for him a helper suitable to him.
Proverbs 5:15-19
15
Drink waters out of your own vessels, and out of your own springing wells.
16
Let not waters out of your fountain be spilled by you, but let your waters go into your streets.
17
Let them be yours alone, and let no stranger partake with you.
18
Let your fountain of water be [truly] your own, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
19
Let [your] loving deer and your graceful colt company with you, and let her be considered your own, and be with you at all times, for ravished with her love you shall be greatly increased.
Proverbs 18:22
He that has found a good wife has found favors, and has received favor from God. [ 18:22A] He that puts away a good wife, puts away a good thing, and he that keeps an adulteress is foolish and ungodly.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is a disgrace to his father; vows [paid out] of the hire of a harlot are not pure.
Proverbs 19:14
Fathers divide house and substance to their children, but a wife is suited to a man by the Lord.
Proverbs 21:9
[It is] better to dwell in a corner on the housetop, than in plastered rooms with unrighteousness, and in an open house.
Proverbs 21:19
[It is] better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman.
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let each [man] have his own wife, and let each [woman] have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:8
But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they should remain as I also [remain];
1 Corinthians 7:26-28
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Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress, that [it is] good for a man to be as he is:
27
Have you been bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Have you been released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
28
But even if you should marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin should marry, she has not sinned. But such will have trouble in the flesh, and I would spare you.
1 Corinthians 7:32-35
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But I want you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man cares about the things of the Lord--[about] how he may please the Lord.
33
But the [man] having married cares about the things of the world--[about] how he may please his wife.
34
And the wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the woman having married cares about the things of the world--about how she may please her husband.
35
And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a snare upon you, but for that which is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.
1 Corinthians 7:39-35
1 Corinthians 7:40-35
1 Timothy 4:3
forbidding to marry, [commanding] to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.
1 Timothy 5:11-15
11
But refuse [to enroll] the younger widows; for whenever they grow lustful against Christ, they desire to marry,
12
having condemnation because they have set aside their first faith.
13
And besides they learn to be idle, going around from house to house, and not only idle but also gossipy and busybodies, speaking things [which are] not proper.
14
Therefore I desire that the younger widows to marry, to bear children, to manage the house, to give no opportunity to the adversary because of reproach.
15
For already some have turned aside after Satan.