And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.

And Laban said to him, It is better that I should give her to you, than that I should give her to another man; dwell with me.

Fulfill then her week, and I will give her to you also in return for your service, which you serve with me, yet seven other years.

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.

Fathers divide house and substance to their children, but a wife is suited to a man by the Lord.

Who shall find a virtuous woman? For such a one is more valuable than precious stones.

The heart of her husband trusts in her; such a one shall stand in no need of fine spoils.

So I hired [her] to myself for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of wine.

And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.

Husbands, love your own wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

And it shall come to pass that the child which she shall bear, shall be named by the name of the deceased, and his name shall not be blotted out of Israel.

And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall compass us round about and destroy us from off the land: and what will You do [for] Your great name?

but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to destroy their memorial from the earth. The righteous cried, and the Lord hearkened to them,

Let them be before the Lord continually; and let their memorial be blotted out from the earth.

Your seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of your belly as the dust of the ground; neither now shall you by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall your name perish from before Me.

And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from off the land, and there shall be no longer any remembrance of them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit from the land.

And make for Me witnesses [among] faithful men, Uriah, and Zechariah the son of Berechiah.

And I went in to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me, Call his name, Spoil Quickly, Plunder Speedily.

Yet you said, For what reason? Because the Lord has borne witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have forsaken, and yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.