GEN. II, 21. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: 22. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. PROV. XVIII, 22. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord. EPH. V, 31. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 1 TIM. IV, 1. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2. Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 3. Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. HEB. XIII, 4. Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 1 TIM. V, 14. I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. 2. CAUTIONS AGAINST IMPROPER MARRIAGES. DEUT. VII, 3. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. 1 COR. VII, 39. The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 2 COR. VI, 14. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? AMOS III, 3. Can two walk together, except they be agreed? 3. MUTUAL DUTIES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES. EPH. V, 21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 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 savior 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, and gave himself for it; EPH. V, 28. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. EPH. V, 33. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. TITUS II, 4. That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children. 5. To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. 4. DUTY OF PARENTS TO THEIR CHILDREN.