¹⁴ And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

¹⁵ And let the peace of Christ be ruling in your hearts, as it was the purpose of God for you to be one body; and give praise to God at all times.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.

¹⁸ Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

¹⁹ As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

²⁰ Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

²¹ For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

⁶ But from the first, male and female made he them.

⁷ For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

⁸ And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

⁹ Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.

¹⁰ And in the house the disciples put questions to him again about this thing.

²⁸ Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

²⁹ For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

³⁰ Because we are parts of his body.

³¹ For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

³² This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

³³ But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

²⁵ And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.

⁴ And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

⁵ For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

⁶ So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

⁷ They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?

¹⁵ ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

¹⁵ Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

¹⁶ Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

¹⁷ But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

¹⁸ Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.