Love & Relationships

Bible Verses About the marriage ceremony

19 key scriptures

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

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TranslationKey Verse: Ecclesiastes 4:9
King James (KJV)Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

19 Key Scriptures

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they 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
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
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Intreat: or, Be not against me
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
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
A Song of degrees. Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Let all your things be done with charity.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, of the Lord: or, in the Lord
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

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