15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Marriage and Family

• Marriage as one man and one woman

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 7:2 — Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
• 1Cor 7:10 — And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
• 1Pet 3:7 — Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hinder
• 1Sam 12:5 — And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
• Col 3:19 — Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
• Eccl 9:9 — Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in th
• Ezek 16:8 — Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant
• Gen 2:18 — And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
• Gen 2:24 — Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
• Gen 31:50 — If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
• Gen 31:50 — If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
• Isa 54:6 — For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
• Isa 54:6 — For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
• Jer 8:12 — Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they
• Jer 42:5 — Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
• Jer 42:5 — Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
• Mal 1:6 — A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my
• Mal 1:6 — A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my
• Mal 2:10 — Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
• Mal 2:15 — And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife
• Mal 2:15 — And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife
• Mal 3:5 — And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his
• Mal 3:5 — And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his
• Mark 10:6 — But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
• Matt 5:32 — But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
• Matt 19:6 — Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
• Mic 1:2 — Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.
• Prov 2:17 — Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
• Prov 2:17 — Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
• Prov 5:18 — Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
• Prov 5:18 — Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
• Prov 30:20 — Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
• Song 1:15 — Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.