Bible Verses about Marriage

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• He who finds a wife finds a good thing,
  And obtains favor from the Lord.
  Proverbs 18:22blessingseeking
• And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
  Matthew 19:4-6sexualitycreation
• Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
  Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.
  Colossians 3:18-19humilityrelationships
• Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
  Hebrews 13:4desiresjudgmentsexuality
• Who can find a virtuous wife?
  For her worth is far above rubies.
  Proverbs 31:10valuablerelationships
• Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word.
  Ephesians 5:25-26lovepurificationrelationships
• A man’s heart plans his way,
  But the Lord directs his steps.
  Proverbs 16:9planningdependence
• Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
  1 Corinthians 7:2desiresrelationshipssexuality
• And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
  Genesis 2:18creationrelationships
• When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.
  Deuteronomy 24:5
• Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
  And Adam said:
  “This is now bone of my bones
  And flesh of my flesh;
  She shall be called Woman,
  Because she was taken out of Man.”
  Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
  Genesis 2:22-24creationbodysexuality
• You are all fair, my love,
  And there is no spot in you.
  Song of songs 4:7beautyrelationships
• Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
  Ephesians 5:22-23Jesussalvationrelationships
• Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
  1 Corinthians 7:3-4bodysexuality
• Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
  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
• So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
  Ephesians 5:28relationshipsbody
• Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  1 Corinthians 7:5devilself-controlsexuality
• Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
  Ephesians 5:33relationships
• You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
  Matthew 5:27-28desiresheartsin
• I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,
  My soul shall be joyful in my God;
  For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
  He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
  As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments,
  And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
  Isaiah 61:10righteousnessjoyredeemer
• But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.
  Mark 10:6-9bodysexuality