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Bible Verses About marriage vows

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Discover 20 powerful Bible verses about marriage vows. Study what Scripture teaches about this essential love & relationships topic.

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TranslationKey Verse: Ephesians 5:31
King James (KJV)For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, vaunteth: or, is not rash
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
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.
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
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
For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. that he: or, if he hate her, put her away putting: Heb. to put away
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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 I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. Live: Heb. See, or, Enjoy life
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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