Bible Verses About Commitment to Relationships

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

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

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.

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.

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.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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

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.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

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.

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;

My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

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

These things I command you, that ye love one another.