Bible Verses About Commitment Ceremonies

I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people,

I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.

If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:

And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,

But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the Lord.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord:

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the Lord:

And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

And he shall take a wife in her virginity.