Proverbs 2:17
2:17 who leaves the husband from her younger days,
and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.
Malachi 2:14
2:14 Yet you ask, “Why?” The
Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young,
to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.
Mark 10:9
10:9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Romans 7:2
7:2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her
husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.
Romans 7:1
The Believer’s Relationship to the Law
7:1 Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?
Colossians 1:10-14
1:10 so that you may live
worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects
– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
1:11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of
all patience and steadfastness, joyfully
1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share
in the saints’
inheritance in the light.
1:13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,
1:14 in whom we have redemption,
the forgiveness of sins.
Ephesians 5:28
5:28 In the same way
husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Hebrews 13:4
13:4 Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.