So that they are no longer two, but one. What God himself, then, has yoked together man must not separate."
And said--'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife, and the man and his wife shall become one'?
"Why, then," they said, "did Moses direct that a man should 'serve his wife with a notice of separation and divorce her'?"
What God himself, then, has yoked together man must not separate."
For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband while he is living; but, if her husband dies, she is set free from the law that bound her to him.
That is how husbands ought to love their wives--as if they were their own bodies. A man who loves his wife is really loving himself;
Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.