27 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled

Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

Neither shall thou covet thy neighbor's wife. Neither shall thou desire thy neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is thy neighbor's.

A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

And thou shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival [to her], to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.

And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burnt with fire, both he and they, that there be no wickedness among you.

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

For John said to him, It is not permitted for thee to have her.

For John said to Herod, It is not permitted for thee to have thy brother's wife.

This is the thing which LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best, only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married. So no inheritance of the sons of Israel shall remove from tribe to tribe, for the sons of Israel shall cling each one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. And every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the sons of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.read more.
So no inheritance shall move from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall cling each one to his own inheritance. Even as LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad, for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophedad, were married to their father's brothers' sons. They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

and said, For this reason a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh?

His disciples say to him, If the case of the man with his wife is this way, it is not advantageous to marry.

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

They shall not take a woman who is a harlot, or profane, neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband, for he is holy to his God.

And he shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these he shall not take, but he shall take to wife a virgin of his own people.

A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these he shall not take, but he shall take to wife a virgin of his own people.

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

But I say to you, that whoever may divorce his wife apart from a matter of fornication, disposes her to commit adultery, and whoever may marry her who has been divorced commits adultery.

The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not with an accusation of debauchery or insubordinate.

Let helpers be husbands of one wife, ruling children and their own houses well.

Let no widow be enrolled under sixty years old, having become the wife of one man,

A wife is bound by law as long a time as her husband lives, but also if the husband should sleep, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in Lord.

For the woman under authority to the living husband has been bound by law, but if the husband should die, she has been released from the law of the husband.

If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her sons shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be charged with any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.