Chapter Four – Scriptures

 

Key Verse

Genesis 2:24 (King James Version)

 24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Men’s Questions

1 Peter 3:7 (King James Version)

 7Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Genesis 2:5 (King James Version)

 5And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

1 Corinthians 7:1-5 (King James Version)

 1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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

 3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

 4The 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.

 5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Hebrews 13:4 (King James Version)

 4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Job 31:1 (King James Version)

 1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Proverbs 5:15-19 (King James Version)

 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

 16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

 17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

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

 19Let 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.

Malachi 2:15 (King James Version)

 15And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Additional References from the Men’s Book

Song of Solomon 5:16 (King James Version)

 16His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

James 2:23 (King James Version)

 23And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

Genesis 1:27 (King James Version)

 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Galatians 3:28 (King James Version)

 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 5:25 (King James Version)

 25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Job 31:1 (King James Version)

 1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Matthew 5:27-28 (King James Version)

 27Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

 28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Malachi 2:14-15 (King James Version)

 14Yet 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.

 15And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

1 Corinthians 7:3-4 (King James Version)

 3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

 4The 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.

Ephesians 4:26 (King James Version)

 26Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Women’s Questions

Genesis 2:24-25 (King James Version)

 24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

 25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis 1:27-28 (King James Version)

 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

 28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Proverbs 5:15-19 (King James Version)

 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

 16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

 17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

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

 19Let 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.

1 Corinthians 7:2-5 (King James Version)

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

 3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

 4The 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.

 5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Hebrews 13:4 (King James Version)

 4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Additional References from the Women’s Book

Genesis 1:31 (King James Version)

 31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 2:7 (King James Version)

 7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

1 Corinthians 11:8-9 (King James Version)

 8For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

 9Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

Genesis 2:23-26 (King James Version)

 23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

 24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

 25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis 3:1-7 (King James Version)

 1Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

 2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

 3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

 4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

 5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

 7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Genesis 3:16-19 (King James Version)

 16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

 17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

 18Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

 19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Genesis 3:23-24 (King James Version)

 23Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

 24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 1:27-28 (King James Version)

 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

 28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

1 Corinthians 7:2-5 (King James Version)

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

 3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

 4The 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.

 5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Hebrews 13:4 (King James Version)

 4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Genesis 26:8-9 (King James Version)

 8And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

 9And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.