Love & Relationships

Bible Verses About marriage and children

19 key scriptures

Explore what the Bible says about marriage and children. This collection of 19 key Scripture passages reveals God's wisdom and guidance on this important theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: Hebrews 13:4
King James (KJV)Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

19 Key Scriptures

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. moveth: Heb. creepeth
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of 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
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. for: or, of Solomon that: Heb. that are builders of it in it
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. residue: or, excellency godly: Heb. seed of God treacherously: or, unfaithfully
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
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.
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

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