50 Bible Verses About Marriage

“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”

“The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.””

“But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.”

““‘I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.”

““Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,”

“These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.”

“He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.”

“When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.”

“You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.”

“Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.”

“For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.”

““Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.”

““‘“Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.”

“When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.””

““Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’‘Ammi’ in Hebrew and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’‘Ruhamah’ in Hebrew”

“I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.”

“Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.”

“For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.”

““You have heard that it was said, TR adds “to the ancients”. ‘You shall not commit adultery;’Exodus 20:14”

““It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’Deuteronomy 24:1”

“and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’Genesis 2:24”

“‘Honor your father and your mother.’Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20 And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”Leviticus 19:18”

“You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20”

““Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’”

“You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20”

“For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,”TR adds “You shall not give false testimony,” “You shall not covet,” Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21 and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”Leviticus 19:18”

“But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.”

“but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.”

“There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.”

“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,”

“doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”

“doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”

“For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.”

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”

“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”

““For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”Genesis 2:24”

“for your partnershipThe word translated “partnership” (koinonia) also means “fellowship” and “sharing”. in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;”

“Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”

“Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.”

“We know, brothersThe word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” loved by God, that you are chosen,”

“Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.”

“forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.”

“that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,”

“to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.”

“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”

“In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;”

“You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.”

“And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.”

“and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.”

“My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.”