Bible Verses About Respect for Marriage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

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

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

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

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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.

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.

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.

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

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

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

For there is no respect of persons with God.

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

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 wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

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

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

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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.