⁶ So they are no longer two but one flesh. ^(A)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

^9 (A)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

^4 (A)Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge ^(B)the sexually immoral and adulterous.

² For ^(A)a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.^[a]

¹⁰ To the married ^(A)I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): ^(B)the wife should not separate from her husband ¹¹ (but if she does, ^(C)she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and ^(D)the husband should not divorce his wife.

¹² To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. ¹³ If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. ^(E)Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

²⁸ In the same way ^(A)husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

^14 (A)But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord ^(B)was witness between you and the wife of your youth, ^(C)to whom ^(D)you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.