100 Bible Verses About Marriage
Bible verses about Marriage
Marriage, a sacred union ordained by God, is a cornerstone of society and a reflection of Christ's love for the Church. Exploring the scriptures concerning marriage unveils profound truths about commitment, sacrifice, and unity. Understanding these biblical principles provides a strong foundation for building lasting relationships rooted in faith and mutual respect. Delving into these verses offers guidance for navigating the joys and challenges of married life, fostering deeper intimacy, and honoring God through your covenant. Let the wisdom of the Bible illuminate your path as you seek to create a marriage that glorifies Him.
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Ephesians 4:29 (KJV)
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Marriage Bible Verses: Love, Commitment, and Faith
A Prayer of David. Bow down thy ear, O LORD, hear me: for I [am] poor and needy.
If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;
And he saith to the people, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to give the portion of the priests, and of the Levites, so that they are strengthened in the law of Jehovah;
I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Do not I, with a strong hand, And with a stretched-out arm, And with fury poured out--rule over you?
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,
As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,
Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace to the lowly.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in her cities, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, mountain of holiness.
And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, [even] to Beer-sheba.
But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
And if we know that he heareth us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired from him.
reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,
Hast thou with him spread out the sky [which is] strong, [and] as a molten looking-glass?
And it came to pass, that after the year had expired, at the time that kings go out [to battle], Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety--God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!
Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?
And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath stripped none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment:
They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
And if any man hungereth, let him eat at home; that ye come not together to condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
I have remembered in the night Thy name, O Jehovah, And I do keep Thy law.
And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
And the king saith--to be done so;' and a law is given in Shushan, and the ten sons of Haman they have hanged.
but there are certain of you who do not believe;' for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him may be saved.
But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
and to seek mercies from before the God of the heavens concerning this secret, that they destroy not Daniel and his companions with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
The runners, riding on the dromedary, and the mules, have gone out, hastened and pressed by the word of the king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace.
And the king saith to wise men, knowing the times--for so is the word of the king before all knowing law and judgment,
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose hight reached to the heaven, and the sight of it to all the earth;
And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:
Through Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few words I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood.
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
then the elders of his city have sent and taken him from thence, and given him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, and he hath died;
Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof is brutish.
and they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'
Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all [others], and guided them on every side.
And David saith unto Saul, Who am I? and what my life--the family of my father in Israel--that I am son-in-law to the king?'
But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the Lord shall forgive her.
And they bring to us, according to the good hand of our God upon us, a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, son of Levi, son of Israel, and Sherebiah, and his sons, and his brethren, eighteen;
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods.
any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,
Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.
Give to the LORD, the glory due to his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, [both for] him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
Now the name of the man [was] Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and [she was] a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man [was] churlish and evil in his doings; and he [was] of the house of Caleb.
Then David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at En-gedi.
But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
But when they believed Philip, preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women.
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.
Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
And the rest of the matters of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written beside the matters of Nathan the prophet, and beside the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and with the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?
But thou didst trust in thy own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
The Praised One' I call Jehovah, And from my enemies I am saved.
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
On a high mountain get thee up, O Zion, Proclaiming tidings, Lift up with power thy voice, O Jerusalem, proclaiming tidings, Lift up, fear not, say to cities of Judah, Lo, your God.'
And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
Be mindful, O my God, of Tobiah, and of Sanballat, according to these his works, and also, of Noadiah the prophetess, and of the rest of the prophets who have been making me afraid.
O the happiness of a man who hath found wisdom, And of a man who bringeth forth understanding.
And when the days of their purification were fulfilled, according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present to the Lord,
And bringing me forth from mine enemies, Yea, above my withstanders Thou raisest me up. From a man of violence Thou deliverest me.
Now, O king, thou dost establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it is not to be changed, as a law of Media and Persia, that doth not pass away.'
Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
But certain men adhered to him, and believed: among whom [was] Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
and the law is not by faith, but--The man who did them shall live in them.'
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
Taken counsel have all the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, the counsellors, and the governors, to establish a royal statute, and to strengthen an interdict, that any who seeketh a petition from any god and man until thirty days, save of thee, O king, is cast into a den of lions.
who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven--messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.
Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,
The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
and she maketh him sleep on her knees, and calleth for a man, and shaveth the seven locks of his head, and beginneth to afflict him, and his power turneth aside from off him;
The Bible offers timeless wisdom on marriage, portraying it as a sacred covenant mirroring God's relationship with humanity. Verses emphasize love, respect, commitment, and fidelity as cornerstones of a thriving marital bond. From the creation narrative highlighting companionship and unity in Genesis, to the apostle Paul's instructions on mutual submission and sacrificial love in Ephesians, these scriptures provide a framework for understanding God's design for marriage. Reflecting on these verses, couples can find guidance in navigating the joys and challenges of married life, continually striving to embody Christ-like love and unwavering commitment. Whether seeking strength, wisdom, or renewed purpose, these biblical principles offer a path towards building a marriage that honors God and reflects His unwavering love. Embrace these teachings, apply them to your relationship, and witness the transformative power of a marriage rooted in faith.