40 Bible Verses about matrimony

and the two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two but one flesh.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since otherwise indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Impose on me very much as dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me; but give me the maiden as wife.

For as they were in the days which were before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day on which Noe entered into the ark,

but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.

forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.

Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.

so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

they ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them;

So that he that marries himself does well; and he that does not marry does better.

But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.

Take 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 there, and be not diminished.

but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.

for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly. He is Saviour of the body.

Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not eat of it.

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

But to the married I enjoin, not I, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;

His disciples say to him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out with the army, neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken.

But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

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

For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:

The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.

For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thy husband? or what knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save thy wife?

If he take himself another, her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he shall not diminish.

And if a man seduce a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall certainly endow her, to be his wife.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

A bastard shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah; even his tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah.

Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.

and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

And thou shalt make no marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor take his daughter for thy son;

And Jesus also, and his disciples, were invited to the marriage.

And the king, having gone in to see the guests, beheld there a man not clothed with a wedding garment.

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

Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife.

Let us rejoice and exult, and give him glory; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.

to be inscribed in the census roll with Mary who was betrothed to him as his wife, she being great with child.