Bible Verses About Marriage
This collection includes 50 passages about Marriage. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Scripture Passages
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.
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 they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
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?
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.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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.
And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
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 if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
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.
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.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
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.
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
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.
I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
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.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
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.
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