And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

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

And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.

Yet 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.

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