What does the Bible say about your spouse?

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• 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

  [4] Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, [5] doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; [6] doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; [7] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

• Exodus 20:14

  "You shall not commit adultery.

• Ephesians 5:25

  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

• 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.

• Romans 9:23

  and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

• Malachi 2:16

  For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!' says Yahweh of Hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.

• Mark 10:2-12

  [2] Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" [3] He answered, "What did Moses command you?" [4] They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her." [5] But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. [6] But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female. [7] For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, [8] and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. [9] What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." [10] In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. [11] He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. [12] If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

• Proverbs 18:22

  Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor of Yahweh.

• Titus 1:6

  if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

• 1 Corinthians 7:10-16

  [10] But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband [11] (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife. [12] But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. [13] The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband. [14] For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now are they holy. [15] 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. [16] For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

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