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If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her
and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, "I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,"
then the girl's father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate.
The girl's father will say to the elders, "I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her.
Now he has slandered her and said, 'I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.' But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity." Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town,
and the elders shall take the man and punish him.
They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the girl's father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
Deuteronomy Chapter 22: Verses 13 - 19
If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house,
Deuteronomy Chapter 24: Verse 1
"It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.'
But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.Oaths
Matthew Chapter 5: Verses 31 - 32
A foolish son is his father's ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
Proverbs Chapter 19: Verse 13
Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs Chapter 21: Verse 9
Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife.
Proverbs Chapter 21: Verse 19
Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs Chapter 25: Verse 24
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.Wives and Husbands
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church,
for we are members of his body.
"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."
This is a profound mystery,but I am talking about Christ and the church.
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians Chapter 5: Verses 21 - 33
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
"Honor your father and mother",which is the first commandment with a promise,
"that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.Slaves and Masters
Ephesians Chapter 6: Verses 1 - 4
Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.
Colossians Chapter 3: Verse 21
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