For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife. (Mat. 19 : 5.) Marriage is honorable in all. (Heb. 13 : 4.) Marriage Disapproved. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.... For I [Paul] would that all men were even as I myself.... It is good for them if they abide even as I. (1 Cor. 7 : 1, 7, 8.) Freedom of Divorce Permitted. When a man hath taken a wife and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, ... then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. (Deut. 24 : 1.) When thou goest out to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thy hands, and thou hast taken them captive, and seest among the captives a beautiful woman and hast a desire unto her, ... then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; ... and after that thou shalt go in unto her and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money; thou shalt not make merchandize of her. (Deut. 21 : 10-14.) Divorce Restricted. But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery. (Mat. 5 : 32.) Adultery Sanctioned. But all the women children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. (Num. 31 : 18.) And the Lord said unto Hosea, Go, take thee a wife of whoredoms.... Then said the Lord to me, Go yet, love a woman, beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress.... So I bought her; ... and I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man; so will I also be for thee. (Hosea 1 : 2, and 3 : 1, 2, 3.) Adultery Forbidden. Thou shalt not commit adultery. (Ex. 20 : 14.) Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. (Heb. 13 : 4.) Marriage or Cohabitation with a Sister Denounced. Cursed is he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. (Deut. 27 : 22.) And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, ... it is a wicked thing. (Lev. 20 : 17.) Abraham Married his Sister, and God Blessed the Union. And Abraham said, ... She is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. (Gen. 20 : 11, 12.) And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarah, thy wife, ... I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her. (Gen. 17 : 15, 16.) A Man May Marry His Brother's Widow. If brethren dwell together, and one of them die and have no child the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger; her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife. (Deut. 25 : 5.) A Man May Not Marry his Brother's Widow.