Deuteronomy 24:5

American Standard Version (1901)

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

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  • Deut 20:7 : 7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
  • Prov 5:18 : 18 Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.
  • Matt 19:4-6 : 4 And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made [them] from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh? 6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
  • Mark 10:6-9 : 6 But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; 8 and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-15 : 10 But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband 11 (but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife. 12 But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. 13 And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. 15 Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such [cases] : but God hath called us in peace.
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;
  • Eph 5:28-29 : 28 Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: 29 for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;
  • Titus 2:4-5 : 4 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 [ to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 20:5-7
    3 verses
    80%

    5And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

    6And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not used the fruit thereof? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit thereof.

    7And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

  • Deut 24:1-4
    4 verses
    75%

    1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife] .

    3And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

    4her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

  • Deut 21:10-14
    5 verses
    74%

    10When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive,

    11and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;

    12then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

    13and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

    14And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.

  • Exod 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10If he take him another [wife] ; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

    11And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.

  • Lev 21:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

    14A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these shall he not take: but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.

  • Deut 28:30
    71%

    30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.

  • Judg 21:22
    70%

    22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them graciously unto us, because we took not for each man [of them] his wife in battle, neither did ye give them unto them, else would ye now be guilty.

  • Num 5:13
    70%

    13and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she be not taken in the act;

  • Deut 25:5
    69%

    5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

  • Deut 22:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

    14and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

  • Num 30:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

    14But 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 hath established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

  • Num 30:11
    69%

    11and 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.

  • Deut 25:7-8
    2 verses
    68%

    7And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother unto me.

    8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;

  • Gen 2:24
    68%

    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • Deut 17:17
    68%

    17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

  • Num 30:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6And if she be [married] to a husband, while her vows are upon her, or the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul,

    7and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he heareth it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

  • Exod 21:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

    4If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    68%

    2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • Ezek 44:22
    67%

    22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.

  • Deut 25:11
    67%

    11When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets;

  • 1 Cor 7:33
    67%

    33but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    67%

    27Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
    2 verses
    67%

    10But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

    11(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

  • Lev 21:7
    67%

    7They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

  • Gen 24:38
    67%

    38but thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.

  • Prov 5:18
    67%

    18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

  • Lev 18:18
    67%

    18And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival [to her], to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.

  • Deut 24:6
    66%

    6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.

  • Jer 29:6
    66%

    6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

  • Josh 23:12
    66%

    12Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;

  • Deut 22:29
    66%

    29then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

  • Rom 7:2
    66%

    2For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

  • Matt 19:5
    66%

    5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?