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The Qur'an recommends that wives be obedient and adaptable to their husbands. Wives should also keep the secrets of their husbands and protect their honor and integrity. Islamic scholars consider this important in running a smooth family system. [25] Divorced women must wait three monthly cycles ˹before they can re-marry˺.
The word spouse may be replaced by wife or husband as appropriate or by partner in marriage [14] The phrase through divine assistance may be replaced by the words with God’s help [14] The phrase so long as we both on earth shall live may be replaced by the words until it shall please the Lord by death to separate us [14]
For men must work, and women must weep, And there's little to earn, and many to keep, Though the harbour bar be moaning. Three wives sat up in the light-house tower, And they trimm’d the lamps as the sun went down; They look’d at the squall, and they look’d at the shower, And the night wrack came rolling up ragged and brown!
The most debated issue is over the exception to the ban on divorce, which the KJV translates as "saving for the cause of fornication." The Koine Greek word in the exception is πορνείας /porneia, this has variously been translated to specifically mean adultery, to mean any form of marital immorality, or to a narrow definition of marriages already invalid by law.
Joe Kort, a counselor specializing in mixed-orientation marriages, has noted that often, men who later come out as gay "genuinely love their wives. They fall in love with their wives, they have children, they're on a chemical, romantic high, and then after about seven years, the high falls away and their gay identity starts emerging. They don't ...
According to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, "Men who abuse often use Ephesians 5:22, taken out of context, to justify their behavior, but the passage (v. 21-33) refers to the mutual submission of husband and wife out of love for Christ. Husbands should love their wives as they love their own body, as Christ loves the Church." [2]
William Shakespeare’s adage that the course of true love never did run smooth was proved during the UK Wife Carrying Race. Competitors in Dorking teamed up for the event that sees husbands carry ...
28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body.