MARRIAGE

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Hebrews 13:4

Question 2

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Answer 2

1 Timothy 5:14

Question 3

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 3

Exodus 22:16

Question 4

And called Edna his wife, and took paper, and did write an instrument of covenants, and sealed it.

Answer 4

Tobit 7:14

Question 5

Deliver all things in number and weight; and put all in writing that thou givest out, or receivest in.

Answer 5

Ecclesiasticus 42:7

Question 6

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Answer 6

Matthew 19:5

Question 7

In her virginity, lest she should be defiled and gotten with child in her father’s house; and having an husband, lest she should misbehave herself; and when she is married, lest she should be barren.

Answer 7

Ecclesiasticus 42:10

Question 8

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 8

1 Corinthians 7:28

Question 9

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Answer 9

1 Corinthians 11:3

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

Ephesians 5:22‐23

Question 11

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 11

Colossians 3:18‐19

Question 12

An evil wife is a yoke shaken to and fro: he that hath hold of her is as though he held a scorpion.

Answer 12

Ecclesiasticus 26:7

Question 13

The grace of a wife delighteth her husband, and her discretion will fatten his bones.
A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord; and there is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.
A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her continent mind cannot be valued.

Answer 13

Ecclesiasticus 26:13‐15

Question 14

A wicked woman is given as a portion to a wicked man: but a godly woman is given to him that feareth the Lord.
A dishonest woman contemneth shame: but an honest woman will reverence her husband.
A shameless woman shall be counted as a dog; but she that is shamefaced will fear the Lord.

Answer 14

Ecclesiasticus 26:23‐25

Question 15

And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

Answer 15

Leviticus 15:16‐18

Question 16

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
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 16

1 Corinthians 7:3‐5

Question 17

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

Answer 17

Proverbs 5:18‐19

Question 18

If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

Answer 18

Exodus 21:10

Question 19

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Answer 19

1 Timothy 5:8

Question 20

And he said to his daughter, Honour thy father and thy mother in law, which are now thy parents, that I may hear good report of thee. And he kissed her. Edna also said to Tobias, The Lord of heaven restore thee, my dear brother, and grant that I may see thy children of my daughter Sara before I die, that I may rejoice before the Lord: behold, I commit my daughter unto thee of special trust; where are do not entreat her evil.

Answer 20

Tobit 10:12