Love & Relationships
Bible Verses About sacrament of marriage
18 key scriptures
Explore what the Bible says about sacrament of marriage. This collection of 18 key Scripture passages reveals God's wisdom and guidance on this important theme.
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| Translation | Key Verse: Genesis 2:24 |
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| 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.” |
18 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
“But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.”
Mark 10:6KJV
“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
Hebrews 13:4KJV
“And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,”
Matthew 19:4KJV
“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.”
“Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.”
Malachi 2:14KJV
“Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
Matthew 19:6KJV
“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;”
1 Peter 3:1KJV
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
“House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.”
“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. cruel: Heb. hard”
“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.”
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.”
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.”
“Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”
“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
“Nevertheless , to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, vaunteth: or, is not rash”
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