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7Similarly, you husbands should live with them in accord with knowledge, bestowing honor on the female as the weaker vessel and as co-heirs of the life of grace, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
19Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter toward them.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,
28So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
24For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.
33Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband.
22Wives should be submissive to their husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church. He is the Savior of his body. 24Therefore, just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also should wives be subject to their husbands in all things. 25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her, 26so that he might sanctify her, washing her clean by water and the Word of life, 27so that he might offer her to himself as a glorious Church, not having any spot or wrinkle or any such thing, so that she would be holy and immaculate.
4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
32And be kind and merciful to one another, forgiving one another, just as God has forgiven you in Christ.
18Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth: 19a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.
9Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your uncertain life which have been given to you under the sun, during all the time of your vanity. For this is your portion in life and in your labor, with which you labor under the sun.
31“For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.”
18The Lord God also said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself.”