² But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

¹⁴ House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

⁹ But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.

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.

²² Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

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.

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.

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:

³ Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

¹⁴ But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.