40 Bible Verses about matrimony

and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two but one flesh.

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

{Make the bride price and gift as high as you like}; I will give what you say to me. But give me the girl as a wife."

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

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

who forbid marrying [and insist on] abstaining from foods that God created for sharing in with thankfulness by those who believe and who know the truth,

The husband must fulfill his obligation to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate."

"For this [reason] a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed [them] all.

So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, and the one who does not marry [her] will do better.

But if you marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

(This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.)

Take wives and father sons and daughters, and take for your sons wives, and give your daughters to men that they may bear sons and daughters, and multiply there, and you must not be few.

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

because [the] husband is [the] head of the wife, as also Christ [is the] head of the church (he himself [being the] Savior of the body).

You shall become engaged to a woman, but another man shall sleep with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not live in it; a vineyard you shall plant, but you shall not enjoy it.

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

To the married I command--not I, but the Lord--a wife must not separate from [her] husband.

The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of a man with his wife, it would be better not to marry!"

"When a man takes a new wife he shall not go out with the army, and {he shall not be obligated with anything}; he shall be free from obligation, {to stay at home} for one year, and he shall bring joy [to] his wife that he took.

Now concerning [the things] about which you wrote: "[It is] good for a man not to touch a woman."

Marriage [must be] held in honor by all, and the marriage bed [be] undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

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

For the married woman is bound by law to [her] husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband [does]. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but his wife [does].

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

If he takes for himself another, he will not reduce her food, her clothing, or her right of cohabitation.

" 'If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and he lies with her, he surely will give her bride price {to have her as his wife}.

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh.

An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even [to] the tenth generation none {of his descendants} may come into the assembly of Yahweh.

May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

and said, 'On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?

And you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to their son; and you shall not take his daughter for your son.

And both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding.

But [when] the king came in to see the {dinner guests}, he saw a man there not dressed [in] wedding clothes.

And there was a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asher (she was advanced {in years}, having lived with [her] husband seven years {after her marriage},

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

Let us rejoice and be glad and give him the glory, because the wedding celebration of the Lamb has come, and his bride has prepared herself.

to be registered together with Mary, who was legally promised in marriage to him [and] was pregnant.