His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”
The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favour of the LORD.
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.