Verse 13

Purity in the Marriage Relationship Suppose a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then rejects her,

Referenced Verses

• Gen 29:21 : 21 Finally Jacob said to Laban,“Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. And I want to sleep with her.”
• Gen 29:23 : 23 In the evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and he slept with her.
• Gen 29:31 : 31 The Family of Jacob When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.
• Deut 24:1 : 1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.
• Judg 15:1-2 : 1 Samson Versus the Philistines Sometime later, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride. He said to her father,“I want to sleep with my bride in her bedroom!” But her father would not let him enter. 2 Her father said,“I really thought you absolutely despised her, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is more attractive than she is. Take her instead!”
• Eph 5:28-29 : 28 In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one has ever hated his own body, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,