Bible Verses About Marriage and Relationships

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;

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

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

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

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

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of 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?

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.

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

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

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

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

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

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

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

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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.

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

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

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

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

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

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

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.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in 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:

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.

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 and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

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

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

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

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