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Bible Verses About the meaning of marriage

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What does the Bible say about the meaning of marriage? Browse 17 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: Ephesians 5:25
King James (KJV)Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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 this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
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.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
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.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Woman: Heb. Isha Man: Heb. Ish
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;
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.

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