40 Bible Verses about matrimony

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

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

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

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and 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; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

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

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.