Gen. 2:23-24
The man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man." For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Ruth 1:16-17
Ruth replied, "do not urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go, I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will become my people and your God my Gd. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it every so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."
Canticles 8:6-7
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal upon your arm, for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like a fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
1 Cor. 13:1-7
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I give all I possess, and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
Eph. 5:21-28
Submit to one another, out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the Church, his body of which he is the Savior. Now as the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himslef as a radiant Church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himslef as a radiant Church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.