17 Bible Verses about Marriage, Restrictions Concerning

A wife has been given so long a time as her husband may live; but if her husband may die, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what participation is there to righteousness and unrighteousness? or what fellowship has light unto darkness?

But I say to the rest, not the Lord, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is willing to live with him, let him not send her away. And if any wife has an unbelieving husband, and he is willing to live with her, let her not send away her husband. For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the brother. Since then your children are unclean; but now they are holy.read more.
But if the unbeliever departs, let him or her depart; the brother or the sister has not been enslaved in such things. God has called you in peace. For what do you know, O wife, if you shall save your husband? And what do you know, O husband, if you shall save your wife?

For Herod having arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison, on account of Herodias the wife of his brother Philip. For John said to him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.

For Herod himself having sent, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip: because he married her. For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have the wife of thy brother.

saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any man may die, not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother. But there were among us seven brothers: the first marrying died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother. Likewise also, the second, and third, even unto seven.

Teacher, Moses wrote to us, That if the brother of any man may die, and leave a wife and have no children, that his brother must take his wife and raise up seed to his brother. There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. And the second received her and died, and he left no seed; and the third likewise.read more.
And the seven received her and left no seed. Last of all the woman also died.

saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, That if the brother of any one may die having a wife, and the same may die childless, that his brother must take his wife and raise up seed to his brother. Then there were seven brothers; and the first receiving a wife died childless. And the secondread more.
and the third received her, and likewise also the seven; they left no children and died.

For a woman who is under her husband has been given to her husband by the law so long as he lives; but if the husband may die, she is free from the law of the husband. Then if she may be married to another man, her husband still living, she will be designated an adulteress: but if her husband may die, she is free from the law; and is no adulteress, though she is married to another man.

But I speak to the unmarried and the widows, that it is good for them that they may remain even as I: but if they do not contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Therefore I wish the younger women to marry, to raise up children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to the adversary for the sake of reproach;

Every one sending away his wife, and marrying another, commits adultery; and the one marrying her who has been sent away by her husband commits adultery.

But I say unto you, That whosoever may send away his wife, not for fornication, and may marry another, commits adultery.

Whosoever may send away his wife, and marry another, commits adultery unto her. And if she having sent away her husband, may marry another, she commits adultery.

But I proclaim to those who have married, not I, but the Lord, That a wife shall not depart from her husband (but if indeed she may depart, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled unto her husband); and that the husband shall not send away the wife.

But I say unto you, that every one sending away his wife, except on account of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever may marry her who has been cast off commits adultery.

But if the unbeliever departs, let him or her depart; the brother or the sister has not been enslaved in such things. God has called you in peace.