Bible Verses About Courtship

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.

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

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

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

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

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.

And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

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.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

And he said unto me, The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house:

Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as the Lord hath spoken.

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.

So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

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;

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

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

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

But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

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.

And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

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

And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

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

We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.