Bible Verses About Finding a Wife

Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

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

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

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:

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 seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

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:

For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.

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

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

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

And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

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

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

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

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

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

Arise, go to Padan–aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.

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

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

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

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.

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

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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 he shall take a wife in her virginity.

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

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

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

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.

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

But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

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

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

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

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.