Deuteronomy 24:5

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.

What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”

Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin. He counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found that there were three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go out to war, who could handle spear and shield.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.

The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty, that were able to go out to war.

who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.

But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.

“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”

‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

I commanded you at that time, saying, “Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it. All of you men of valor shall pass over armed before your brothers, the children of Israel.

For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—

If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her,

“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.

Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’

But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation. I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding.”

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,

For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.