Bible Cross References
The children
Luke 16:8
"So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd 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 the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
1 Corinthians 7:2-16
2
Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
3
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.]
5
Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6
But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment.
7
For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.
8
But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am;
9
but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn [with passion.]
10
Now to the married I command, [yet] not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from [her] husband.
11
But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to [her] husband. And a husband is not to divorce [his] wife.
12
But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.
13
And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him.
14
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.
15
But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such [cases.] But God has called us to 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 reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage [is] honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.