Bible Cross References
The children
Luke 16:8
So the master commended the unjust steward because he had acted prudently. For the sons of this world are more prudent in their generation than the sons of light.
marry
Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
1 Corinthians 7:2-16
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Nevertheless, because of sexual perversion, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.
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Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
4
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
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Do not deprive one another except by agreement for a time, that you may be free for fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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But I say this by permission, not by commandment.
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For I wish that all men were even as myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.
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But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am;
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but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be on fire.
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Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to leave her husband.
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But, indeed, in case she does leave, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to send away his wife.
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But to the rest I say, not the Lord: If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is willing to live with him, let him not send her away.
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And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, if he is willing to live with her, let her not leave him.
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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
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But if the unbeliever leaves, let them leave; a brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us in peace.
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For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?
Ephesians 5:31
For this, a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but prostitutes and adulterers God will judge.