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 Jehovah God said, It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper to complement him.
Proverbs 5:15-19
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Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
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Should your springs be dispersed abroad, like streams of water in the streets?
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Let them be only your own, and not for strangers with you.
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Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth,
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as a loving deer and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and always be intoxicated in her love.
Proverbs 18:22
He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from Jehovah.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the ruin of his father, and the contentions of a wife, a continual dripping.
Proverbs 19:14
Houses and riches are the inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry 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, because of sexual perversion, let each have his own wife, and let each 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 remain even as I am;
1 Corinthians 7:26-28
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I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present necessity; that it is good for a man to be thus:
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Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
28
But also if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I am sparing you.
1 Corinthians 7:32-35
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But I want you to be free from anxiety. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord; how to please the Lord.
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But he who is married cares about the things of the world; how to please his wife.
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There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world; how to please her husband.
35
And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what 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, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be partaken with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy 5:11-15
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But refuse the younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,
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having condemnation because they have set aside their first faith.
13
And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
14
Therefore I desire that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary for reproach.
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For some have already turned aside after Satan.