Genesis 2:18-24

The Lord God said, “It is not

good for the man to be
alone. I will make a helper
suited to him.”
So the Lord God formed out
of the ground all the wild
animals and all the birds of
the air,
and He brought them to the man
to see what he would call them;
whatever the man called each
living creature was then its name.
The man gave names to all
the tame animals, all the birds
of the air, and all the wild
animals;
but none proved to be a
helper suited to the man.
So the Lord God cast a deep
sleep on the man, and while he
was asleep, He took out one of
his ribs and closed up its place
with flesh.
The Lord God then built the rib
that He had taken from the man
into a woman. When he brought
her to the man, the man said:
“This one, at last, is bone of my
bones and flesh of my flesh; this
one shall be called ‘woman,’ for
out of man this one has been
taken.”
Thanks be to God!
Marriage is a basic human and
social institution. It is a Genesis’
Mandate, a mandate from God.
The nature and purpose of marriage
are established by God, which is the
permanent union of a man and a
woman to contribute to the
common good of the society,
especially through the procreation
and education of children.

Canon 1055
Marriage is God’s gift
to man and woman.
Be fertile and multiply.
Genesis 1:28
Wives, submit yourselves
to your own husbands
as you do to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:22
Every man should have his
own wife, and every
woman her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2
A wife should not separate from
her husband and if she does she
must either remain single or
become reconciled to her
husband and her husband should
not divorce his wife.
1 Corinthians 1:10-11