Bible Verses about Marriage

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• One who finds a wife finds happiness
  and receives favor from the Lord.
  Proverbs 18:22blessingseeking
• He replied, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ and said: ‘That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one flesh’? And so they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
  Matthew 19:4-6sexualitycreation
• Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not treat them harshly.
  Colossians 3:18-19humilityrelationships
• Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for those who are immoral and adulterers will have to face God’s judgment.
  Hebrews 13:4desiresjudgmentsexuality
• Who can find a worthy wife?
  She is far more precious than pearls.
  Proverbs 31:10valuablerelationships
• Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her in order to sanctify her by cleansing her with water and the word.
  Ephesians 5:25-26lovepurificationrelationships
• A man may plan his own course,
  but the Lord makes his steps secure.
  Proverbs 16:9planningdependence
• However, to avoid the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
  1 Corinthians 7:2desiresrelationshipssexuality
• And the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I wish to make another creature who will be like him.”
  Genesis 2:18creationrelationships
• If a man has recently been married, he is not to go off to battle nor have any other duty laid on him. He will be free to stay at home for one year so that he can bring happiness to the wife whom he has married.
  Deuteronomy 24:5
• The Lord God then formed a woman out of the rib that he had taken from the man. He brought her before the man.
  The man said,
  “This one is bone of my bones
  and flesh of my flesh.
  She shall be called woman
  because she was taken from man.”
  This is why a man leaves his father and his mother and joins with a wife, and the two become one flesh.
  Genesis 2:22-24creationbodysexuality
• You are all-beautiful, my love,
  without the slightest blemish.
  Song of songs 4:7beautyrelationships
• Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church, the body of which he is the Savior.
  Ephesians 5:22-23Jesussalvationrelationships
• A husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise a wife should fulfill her conjugal obligations to her husband. For a wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise, a husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
  1 Corinthians 7:3-4bodysexuality
• Likewise, you who are husbands must show consideration for your wives in your life together. Treat your wife with respect, for even though she is the weaker partner, she is also an equal heir of God’s gift of life. Thus, your prayers will not be hindered in any way.
  1 Peter 3:7prayergracesexuality
• For this reason
  a man shall leave his father and mother
  and be joined to his wife,
  and the two shall become one flesh.
  Ephesians 5:31bodysexuality
• In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself.
  Ephesians 5:28relationshipsbody
• Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by mutual consent for a specified time so as to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan may not tempt you by taking advantage of your lack of self-control.
  1 Corinthians 7:5devilself-controlsexuality
• However, each one of you should love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife should respect her husband.
  Ephesians 5:33relationships
• You have heard that it was said of old: ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that anyone who looks with lust at a woman has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
  Matthew 5:27-28desiresheartsin
• I rejoice in the Lord with all my heart;
  my soul exults in my God.
  For he has clothed me in garments of salvation
  and wrapped me in a robe of saving justice,
  like a bridegroom adorned with a garland
  or a bride bedecked with her jewels.
  Isaiah 61:10righteousnessjoyredeemer
• But from the very beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one flesh.’ And so they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.
  Mark 10:6-9bodysexuality