Marriage: the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship (historically and in some jurisdictions specifically a union between a man and a woman}.

 

Ephesians 5:25  "For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her." Genesis 2:24  "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."