12 Bible Verses about Design Of Marriage
Most Relevant Verses
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.
Then you will know that I sent you this decree so My covenant with Levi may continue,” says the Lord of Hosts.
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.”
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Didn’t the one God make us with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek? A godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously against the wife of your youth.
But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.
Adam was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the Lord’s help.”
Therefore, I want younger women to marry, have children, manage their households, and give the adversary no opportunity to accuse us.
Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.
A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wants—only in the Lord.