Love & Relationships
Bible Verses About young marriage
20 key scriptures
What does the Bible say about young marriage? Browse 20 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.
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| Translation | Key Verse: 1 Timothy 4:12 |
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| King James (KJV) | “Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.” |
20 Key Scriptures
“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”
“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.”
“But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.”
“I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. that: Heb. why should ye stir up, or, why, etc”
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
“But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age , and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.”
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
“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
“I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. to speak: Gr. for their railing”
“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
“When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. neither: Heb. not any thing shall pass upon him”
“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
“And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.”
“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”
Ruth 1:16KJV
“House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.”
“Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.”
“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.”
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, vaunteth: or, is not rash”
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, sober: or, wise”
Titus 2:4KJV
“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
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