Bible Verses About Marital Relationships
This collection includes 50 passages about Marital Relationships. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Scripture Passages
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
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.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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?
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
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