Preparing for marriage

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.