Romans 7:2

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

“ ‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled,

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

“ ‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.

But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. Yahweh will forgive her.

“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.

When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

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

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”

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.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding.

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.

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

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?