Further study on husbands and wives

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“And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul; And her husband heard [it,] and held his peace at her in the day that he heard [it]: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard [it]; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.” (Nu 30:6-8 AV)

“And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath; And her husband heard [it], and held his peace at her, [and] disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard [them; then] whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her. Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which [are] upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard [them].” (Nu 30:10-14 AV)

“These [are] the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, [being yet] in her youth in her father’s house.” (Nu 30:16 AV)

“Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.” (Pr 5:18 AV)

“So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.” (Pr 6:29 AV)

“A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones.” (Pr 12:4 AV)

“[Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD.” (Pr 18:22 AV)

“13 ¶ A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping. 14 ¶ House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.” (Pr 19:13-14 AV)

“The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.” (Pr 31:11 AV)

“Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.” (Pr 31:23 AV)

“Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband [also], and he praiseth her.” (Pr 31:28 AV)

“Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.” (Ps 128:3 AV)

“For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband. So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.” (Ro 7:2-3 AV)

“The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each [of you] in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.” (Ru 1:9 AV)

“And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and [how] thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.” (Ru 2:11 AV)

“If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.” (Tit 1:6 AV)

“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.” (Tit 2:4-5 AV)