² Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

²⁸ So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

³³ Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

⁹ But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

¹⁹ Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

²² Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

³ Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

¹⁴ Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

¹⁴ House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.