What does the Bible say about spouse?
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The Bible teaches that marriage is a holy covenant in which a husband and wife become one flesh, called to faithful love, mutual honor, and purity before God. In Genesis 2:24, marriage is rooted in God’s creation design, joining a man and woman in a lifelong union. Hebrews 13:4 commands that marriage be held in honor and the marriage bed kept undefiled, showing God’s concern for sexual faithfulness. 1 Peter 3:7 calls husbands to live with their wives in understanding and to show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. By God’s grace, spouses are to serve one another with humility, forgiveness, and Christlike love.
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- Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- 1 Peter 3:7
You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
- Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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