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Bible Verses About Marriages

This collection includes 50 passages about Marriages. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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?

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

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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.

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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.

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

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Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

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But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

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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.

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And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

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