6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Marriage and Family

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.
• Col 3:19 — Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
• Deut 24:5 — When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
• 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
• 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
• Eph 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
• Gen 26:8 — And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
• 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.
• Mal 2:14 — 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.
• Mal 2:14 — 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.
• Prov 2:17 — Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
• Prov 5:15 — Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
• Song 4:12 — A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
• Song 4:15 — A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.