What is the biblical foundation of matrimony?

Answer 1

These scriptures describe the foundation of marriage in The Bible:

*(Genesis 2:22-24)"Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.The man said,"This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man."That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh." (NIV)(Ephesians 5:31)(Matthew 19:5)

*(Proverbs 5:18) "Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth."(ASV)

*(Malachi 2:16)"The man who hates and divorces his wife," says the LORD, the God of Israel, "does violence to the one he should protect," says the LORD Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful."(NIV)(Romans 7:2) "For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband."(KJV)

*(1 Corinthians 7:10)"To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband."(NIV)

*(Hebrews 13:4)"Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral."(NIV)