Marriage

Question 1

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Answer 1

Genesis 2:18

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Genesis 2:24

Question 3

And 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.

Answer 3

Genesis 2:23

Question 4

Thou madest Adam, and gavest him Eve his wife for an helper and stay: of them came mankind: thou hast said, It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.

Answer 4

Tobit 8:6

Question 5

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

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

Answer 5

1 Corinthians 11:8-9

Question 6

Unto 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.

Answer 6

Genesis 3:16

Question 7

Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die.

Answer 7

Sirach 25:24

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Hebrews 13:4

Question 9

In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both before God and men: the unity of brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together.

Answer 9

Sirach 25:1

Question 10

Beware of all whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of thy father’s tribe: for we are the children of the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the land.

Answer 10

Tobit 4:12

Question 11

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Answer 11

1 Corinthians 7:10

Question 12

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Answer 12

Matthew 5:31-32

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Matthew 5:28

Question 14

Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

Answer 14

Joshua 23:12-13

Question 15

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

Answer 15

Deuteronomy 7:3-4

Question 16

The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor the pollutions of the Gentiles to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pheresites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.

For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the great men have been partakers of this iniquity.

Answer 16

1 Esdras 8:69-70

Question 17

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

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

Answer 17

1 Corinthians 7:1-2

Question 18

And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

Answer 18

Exodus 22:16

Question 19

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

Answer 19

1 Corinthians 7:28

Question 20

And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust but uprightly: therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together.

Answer 20

Tobit 8:7

Question 21

Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

Answer 21

Leviticus 18:19

Question 22

They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

Answer 22

Leviticus 21:7

Question 23

If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

Answer 23

Deuteronomy 22:22

Question 24

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.

Answer 24

Jeremiah 3:1

Question 25

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Answer 25

Matthew 19:9

Question 26

Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor sit down with her in thine arms, and spend not thy money with her at the wine; lest thine heart incline unto her, and so through thy desire thou fall into destruction.

Answer 26

Sirach 9:9

Question 27

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

Answer 27

Leviticus 18:20

Question 28

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Answer 28

Leviticus 18:22

Question 29

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Answer 29

Leviticus 20:13

Question 30

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

Answer 30

1 Corinthians 5:1

Question 31

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

Answer 31

1 Corinthians 6:18

Question 32

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Answer 32

1 Corinthians 6:13

Question 33

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Answer 33

Colossians3:18-19

Question 34

- Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. - For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. - Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Answer 34

Ephesians 5:22-24

Question 35

- For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: - Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. - Likewise, 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.

Answer 35

1 Peter 3:5-7

Question 36

Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

Answer 36

1 Peter 3:9

Question 37

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

Answer 37

1 Corinthians 7:3

Question 38

Defraud 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.

Answer 38

1 Corinthians 7:5

Question 39

- A shameless woman shall be counted as a dog; but she that is shamefaced will fear the Lord. - A woman that honoureth her husband shall be judged wise of all; but she that dishonoureth him in her pride shall be counted ungodly of all.

Answer 39

Sirach 26:25-26

Question 40

-And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

Answer 40

2 John 1:6