40 Bible Verses about matrimony

and the two will be in one flesh. So then they are no more two, but one flesh.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the husband, then otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me, but give me the damsel to wife.

For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until that day Noah entered into the ark.

But he who is married cares for things of the world, how he will please his wife.

forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.

Let the husband render the goodwill owed to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, no man shall separate.

Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh.

They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

And therefore he who gives in marriage does well, but he who does not give in marriage does better.

But also if thou did marry thou have not sinned, and if the virgin married she has not sinned. Yet such kind will have stress in the flesh, but I spare you.

This mystery is great, but I speak for Christ and for the church.

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters, and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body.

Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lay with her. Thou shall build a house, and thou shall not dwell in it. Thou shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as agents in the heavens.

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

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

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.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as agents of God in heaven.

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.

The wife has not the right of her private body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband has not the right of his private body, but the wife.

For how do thou know, O wife, whether thou will save thy husband? Or how will thou know, O husband, whether thou will save thy wife?

If he takes him another [wife], her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish.

And if a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lays with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and {the two (LXX/NT)} shall be one flesh.

A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of LORD, even to the tenth generation none of his shall enter into the assembly of LORD.

Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:

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?

Neither shall thou make marriages with them. Thy daughter thou shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall thou take to thy son.

And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the wedding.

But when the king came in to see those who were dining, he saw there a man who was not clothed with a wedding garment.

And there was Anna, a prophetess, a daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (being advanced in many days, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

Are thou bound to a wife? Do not seek separation. Are thou free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

We should be glad and rejoice and give the glory to him, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has prepared herself.

to enroll himself with Mary, the woman who was betrothed to him, being pregnant.