Genesis 1:22

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²²God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”^(A)

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Genesis 2:24

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²⁴That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united^(A) to his wife, and they become one flesh.^(B)

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Song of Songs 2:5

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⁵Strengthen me with raisins,
refresh me with apples,^(A)
for I am faint with love.^(B)

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1 Corinthians 7:5

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⁵Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time,^(A) so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan^(B) will not tempt you^(C) because of your lack of self-control.

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Proverbs 5:18-20

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¹⁸May your fountain^(A) be blessed,
    and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.^(B)
¹⁹A loving doe, a graceful deer^(C)—
    may her breasts satisfy you always,
    may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
²⁰Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
    Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

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Deuteronomy 24:5

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⁵If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.^(A)

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