Bible Verses About Marriage Preparation

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.

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.

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.

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

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

And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.

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.

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

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.

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.

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:

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;

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

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

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord:

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

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.

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