Deuteronomy 24:5
When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any public business be enjoined him, but he shall be free at home without fault, that for one year he may rejoice with his wife.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Deuteronomy 20:7What man is there, that hath espoused a wife, and not taken her? let him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man take her.
Ecclesiastes 9:9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.
Mark 10:6But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
1 Corinthians 7:10But to them that are married, not I but the Lord commandeth, that the wife depart not from her husband.
Ephesians 5:28So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 24:2-5
The Law Concerning Divorce. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife. 3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or… Read the whole commentary →