John 7:16-18 "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God. . . ."

Genesis 2:18 "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."

2:21-24 ". . . a man [shall] leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife. . . and they shall be one flesh."

3:16-19 ". . . and he shall rule over thee." / thorns and thistles

Ephesians 5:31 ". . . and they two shall be one flesh." (Does one flesh have two heads?)

1st Corinthians 11:3 "But I would have you know . . . the head of the woman is the man. . . ."

1st Peter 3:1-6 "wives, be in subjection . . . a meek and quiet spirit. . . ."

v. 7 "husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge. . . as unto the weaker vessel. . . ."

(Deuteronomy 24:5 ". . . but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife. . . .")

Colossians 3:18 "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands. . . ."

v. 19 "Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them." --Why does v. 19 follow v. 18?

(1st John 4:20 [if you change: "man" to "woman," "love" to "obey," "his" to "her," "brother" to "husband," & "he" to "she":]

Ephesians 5:22-24 "Wives, submit yourself unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord."

(see v. 21 ". . . Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.")

(and 1st Peter 5:5 "Yea, all of you be subject one to another. . . .")

Ephesians 5:25-33 "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church. . . ."

1st Corinthians 11:11-12 "Nevertheless neither is . . . the woman without the man, in the Lord."

Esther 1:1-22 Vashti was displaced by the king "that every man should bear rule in his own house."

Isaiah 3:12 "and women rule over them. . . ." (But later it caught on in Israel!)

Jeremiah 31:22 "A woman shall compass a man."

(What will be the result of that?)

Isaiah 4:1 "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man. . . ."

(Why is that?)

Romans 1:27 "leaving the . . . woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men. . . ."

Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image . . . male and female. . . ."

[Is that a problem?]

[YES, they have their own way of doing things!] (and there is no end to the evil of it!)

24:61-67 Rebekah / Isaac ". . . and she became his wife" (This might be easy, but is not the same as "shacking up.")

(John 4:16-18 "Living with a man" does not make him your husband.)

Hebrews 13:4 "Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. . . ."

Proverbs 5:18-19 ". . . let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love."

Proverbs 18:22 "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord."

12:4 "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones."

19:13,14 "the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping . . . and a prudent wife is from the Lord."

30:21-23 a thing for which the earth "cannot bear: . . . an odious woman when she is married."

31:10-31 "a virtuous woman" -- a perfect wife

1st Corinthians 7:1-5 "The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other . . . that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency."

1st Timothy 5:14,15 keep at home ". . . guide the house. . . ."

1st Timothy 3:2-5 description of a bishop (a good husband)

v. 8-12 description of a deacon (a good husband)

1st Corinthians 7:25-40 "Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you."

Proverbs 25:19 "Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint."

Habakkuk 2:4-5 ". . . he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home. . . ." (Men also should be "keepers at home".)

Proverbs 21:9 "It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house."

25:24 (21:9 repeated almost exactly)

21:19 "It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman."

11:22 "As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair women which is without discretion."

Nehemiah 13:23-27 ". . . to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?" (of other "religions")

2nd Corinthians 6:14-18 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. . . ."

Deuteronomy 24:1-2 ". . . let him write her a bill of divorcement . . . she may go and be another man's wife. . . ."

(vs. 3-4 "Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife. . . .")

Malachi 2:11-17 ". . . the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth . . . he hateth putting away. . . ."

Matthew 19:3-9 "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."

(v . 10-12 "If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.")

5:31-32 "whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery."

(Mark 10:11,12)

(Proverbs 6:32 "Whoso committeth adultery with a woman . . . destroyeth his own soul.")

(Job 31:9-12 "For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction. . . ."

Romans 7:1-3 ". . . if her husband be dead . . . she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man."

1st Corinthians 7:15 "But if the unbelieving depart . . . A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. . . ."

to be meshed

Ester 1:10-20

Colossians 3:12-21 the family relationship

church likened to a bride or virgin unto Jesus

2nd Corinthians 11:1-4

Ezekiel 16 "all

Jeremiah 2:1-32

3:1-23