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.

Psalms 86:1WEB

If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

James 2:8WEB

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Romans 10:13KJV

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.

Isaiah 50:10KJV

and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

Colossians 3:10YLT

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;

2 Chronicles 31:4YLT

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?

Ezekiel 20:33YLT

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.

Isaiah 2:3KJV

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Colossians 1:10KJV

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.

Genesis 26:8KJV

And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.

John 9:38KJV

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.

Genesis 24:60KJV

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,

Romans 9:22YLT

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,

1 Thessalonians 4:1YLT

Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace to the lowly.

Proverbs 3:34WEB

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.

Jeremiah 31:23WEB

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.

2 Samuel 24:7WEB

But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

Psalms 13:5WEB

And if we know that he heareth us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired from him.

1 John 5:15WEB

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,

2 Corinthians 10:5YLT

Hast thou with him spread out the sky [which is] strong, [and] as a molten looking-glass?

Job 37:18WEB

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.

1 Chronicles 20:1WEB

Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

John 8:46KJV

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

Proverbs 19:27KJV

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

Ephesians 2:4WEB

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!

1 Timothy 3:16YLT

Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

John 8:46YLT

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:

Ezekiel 18:7WEB

They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

Job 41:17KJV

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.

1 Corinthians 11:34WEB

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

Psalms 49:6KJV

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.

2 Kings 6:10WEB

I have remembered in the night Thy name, O Jehovah, And I do keep Thy law.

Psalms 119:55YLT

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.

1 Kings 10:21KJV

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.

Ephesians 4:29KJV

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,

2 Thessalonians 2:16KJV

And the king saith--to be done so;' and a law is given in Shushan, and the ten sons of Haman they have hanged.

Esther 9:14YLT

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,

John 6:64YLT

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him may be saved.

John 3:17WEB

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.

Isaiah 43:1KJV

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.

Daniel 2:18YLT

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.

1 Peter 5:10KJV

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.

Esther 8:14YLT

And the king saith to wise men, knowing the times--for so is the word of the king before all knowing law and judgment,

Esther 1:13YLT

When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

Proverbs 4:12KJV

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;

Daniel 4:20WEB

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:

Ezra 2:61KJV

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.

1 Peter 5:12YLT

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.

Judges 21:22KJV

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;

Deuteronomy 19:12YLT

Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof is brutish.

Proverbs 12:1YLT

and they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'

Acts 16:31YLT

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.

2 Chronicles 32:22WEB

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?'

1 Samuel 18:18YLT

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.

Numbers 30:12KJV

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;

Ezra 8:18YLT

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.

Isaiah 42:17WEB

any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,

Hebrews 10:28YLT

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.

Philippians 1:7WEB

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.

Luke 22:53WEB

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.

Acts 17:13WEB

Give to the LORD, the glory due to his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

Psalms 29:2WEB

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.

Numbers 15:29WEB

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.

1 Samuel 25:3WEB

Then David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at En-gedi.

1 Samuel 23:29WEB

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.

Psalms 5:11KJV

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

Romans 4:20KJV

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.

Acts 8:12WEB

Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.

Proverbs 13:15KJV

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.

Leviticus 4:28KJV

For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.

Romans 2:25YLT

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?

Ecclesiastes 5:6KJV

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.

Exodus 4:5KJV

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

Job 30:27KJV

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?

2 Chronicles 9:29YLT

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.

Ezekiel 16:15WEB

The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

Luke 16:16KJV

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.

Ruth 1:17KJV

The Praised One' I call Jehovah, And from my enemies I am saved.

Psalms 18:3YLT

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

Isaiah 53:1WEB

and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:7YLT

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.'

Isaiah 40:9YLT

And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

1 Kings 11:8KJV

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.

Nehemiah 6:14YLT

O the happiness of a man who hath found wisdom, And of a man who bringeth forth understanding.

Proverbs 3:13YLT

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,

Luke 2:22YLT

And bringing me forth from mine enemies, Yea, above my withstanders Thou raisest me up. From a man of violence Thou deliverest me.

2 Samuel 22:49YLT

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.'

Daniel 6:8YLT

Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

Job 41:8KJV

But certain men adhered to him, and believed: among whom [was] Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Acts 17:34WEB

and the law is not by faith, but--The man who did them shall live in them.'

Galatians 3:12YLT

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.

Numbers 13:31KJV

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.

Daniel 6:7YLT

who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven--messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.

1 Peter 3:22YLT

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.

Ezekiel 5:13KJV

I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

Romans 7:21YLT

The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Psalms 69:36KJV

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

Genesis 18:27KJV

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.

Joshua 6:25KJV

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;

Judges 16:19YLT

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.