Bible Verses About Marriage Considerations

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

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;

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

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

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

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

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 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:

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

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

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

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

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.

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.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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.

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

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.

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: