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“Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.”

Genesis reproduction

“That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.”

Genesis marriage

“Honour your father and your mother.”

Exodus

“You shall not commit adultery.”

Exodus adultery

“Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.”

Leviticus

“If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him … he writes her a certificate of divorce …”

Deuteronomy

“So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Matthew

“Anyone who does not provide for their relatives … has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

1 Timothy

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord … ‘Honour your father and mother.’”

Ephesians

“Flee from sexual immorality … your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit.”

1 Corinthians

“By its very nature the institution of marriage and married love is ordered to the procreation and education of the offspring.”

Catechism of the Catholic Church

“The family is the original cell of social life.”

Catechism of the Catholic Church