89 Bible Verses about Physical Abuse in Marriage

Here are 89 Bible verses about physical abuse in marriage, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Colossians 3:19 KJV

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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1 Corinthians 7:15 KJV

¹⁵ But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

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Ephesians 5:25 KJV

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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1 Corinthians 13:4-7 KJV

⁴ Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, ⁵ Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; ⁶ Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; ⁷ Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

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Hebrews 13:4 KJV

⁴ Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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1 Corinthians 7:1-40 KJV

¹ Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. ² Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. ³ Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. ⁴ The wife hath not power of her own body, but the …

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Malachi 2:16 KJV

¹⁶ For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

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1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV

¹³ There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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2 Corinthians 6:14 KJV

¹⁴ Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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Exodus 20:14 KJV

¹⁴ Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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Genesis 2:24 KJV

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

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Matthew 5:32 KJV

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.

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2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV

¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

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Proverbs 18:22 KJV

²² Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

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Proverbs 5:18-19 KJV

¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. ¹⁹ Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

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Ephesians 5:21 KJV

²¹ Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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1 Peter 3:1-22 KJV

¹ Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; ² While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. ³ Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; ⁴ But let …

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Mark 10:2-12 KJV

² And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. ³ And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? ⁴ And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. ⁵ And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. …

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1 Corinthians 6:16 KJV

¹⁶ What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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Genesis 2:18 KJV

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.

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James 1:19-20 KJV

¹⁹ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: ²⁰ For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

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Titus 3:5 KJV

⁵ Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

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Luke 16:18 KJV

¹⁸ Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

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Psalm 91:1-16 KJV

¹ He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ² I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. ³ Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. ⁴ He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his …

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1 John 4:8 KJV

⁸ He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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1 Timothy 3:1-16 KJV

¹ This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. ² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; ³ Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; ⁴ One that ruleth well his own house, …

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Deuteronomy 25:5-10 KJV

⁵ If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry 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 an husband’s brother unto her. ⁶ And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. …

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1 Corinthians 7:15-16 KJV

¹⁵ But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. ¹⁶ For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

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Proverbs 19:19 KJV

¹⁹ A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

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Proverbs 18:21 KJV

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

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1 John 3:15 KJV

¹⁵ Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

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1 Peter 3:7 KJV

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 hindered.

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2 Timothy 3:1-8 KJV

¹ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. ² For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, ⁴ Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures …

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Ephesians 5:22-33 KJV

²² Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. ²⁴ Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, …

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Ephesians 4:31 KJV

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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Matthew 19:9 KJV

⁹ And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

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Matthew 18:15-17 KJV

¹⁵ Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. ¹⁶ But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. ¹⁷ And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear …

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Psalm 34:18 KJV

¹⁸ The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

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Psalm 11:5 KJV

⁵ The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

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1 John 1:9 KJV

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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James 3:10 KJV

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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James 1:26 KJV

²⁶ If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

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2 Thessalonians 3:6 KJV

⁶ Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

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Ephesians 5:22 KJV

²² Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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Ephesians 5:3 KJV

³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

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Ephesians 4:29 KJV

²⁹ Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Psalm 140:12 KJV

¹² I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

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2 Samuel 22:28 KJV

²⁸ And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

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Deuteronomy 24:1-4 KJV

¹ When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. ² And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. ³ And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of …

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Genesis 1:26-27 KJV

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. ²⁷ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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Ephesians 6:4 KJV

⁴ And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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Ephesians 4:32 KJV

³² And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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Galatians 2:20 KJV

²⁰ I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

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1 Corinthians 13:1-13 KJV

¹ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. ³ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body …

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1 Corinthians 7:10-11 KJV

¹⁰ And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: ¹¹ But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

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John 14:6 KJV

⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

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John 1:1 KJV

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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Psalm 9:9 KJV

⁹ The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

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Revelation 1:1 KJV

¹ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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1 Timothy 3:2 KJV

² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

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Galatians 6:1 KJV

¹ Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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1 Corinthians 6:18 KJV

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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Romans 12:18 KJV

¹⁸ If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

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Mark 10:9 KJV

⁹ What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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Isaiah 61:1 KJV

¹ The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

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Proverbs 18:14 KJV

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

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Proverbs 12:18 KJV

¹⁸ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

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Proverbs 10:6 KJV

⁶ Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

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Psalm 146:7 KJV

⁷ Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:

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Genesis 1:3 KJV

³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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2 Peter 3:9 KJV

⁹ The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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Hebrews 13:3 KJV

³ Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

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1 Thessalonians 5:11 KJV

¹¹ Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

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Philippians 4:13 KJV

¹³ I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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Ephesians 2:10 KJV

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

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2 Corinthians 13:14 KJV

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

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2 Corinthians 9:7 KJV

⁷ Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

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Romans 8:29 KJV

²⁹ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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John 10:10 KJV

¹⁰ The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

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Mark 10:8 KJV

⁸ And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

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Matthew 5:21-22 KJV

²¹ Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: ²² But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

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Proverbs 24:11 KJV

¹¹ If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

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Proverbs 13:2 KJV

² A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

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Proverbs 10:11 KJV

¹¹ The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

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Psalm 72:14 KJV

¹⁴ He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

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Exodus 21:1-36 KJV

¹ Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. ² If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³ If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴ If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or …

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Genesis 2:1-25 KJV

¹ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. ² And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. ³ And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. ⁴ These are the generations …

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Matthew 19:6 KJV

⁶ Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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