Love & Relationships
Bible Verses About marriage
13 key scriptures
What does the Bible say about marriage? Browse 13 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.
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| Translation | Key Verse: Genesis 2:24 |
|---|---|
| King James (KJV) | “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” |
13 Key Scriptures
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Genesis 2:24KJV
“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
Hebrews 13:4KJV
“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.”
“Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, vaunteth: or, is not rash”
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”
1 Peter 3:7KJV
“It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. a brawling: Heb. a woman of contentions a wide: Heb. an house of society”
“House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.”
“And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. meet: Heb. as before him”
Genesis 2:18KJV
“And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.”
Matthew 19:2KJV
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