^9 [a]Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your ^(A)futile life which He has given you under the sun, ^[b]all the days of your futility; for this is your ^(B)reward in life and in your work which you have labored under the sun.

² But because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

²⁸ So husbands also ought to ^(A)love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;