40 Bible Verses about matrimony

and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I'll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!"

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

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights, and likewise a wife to her husband.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

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

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage -- right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.

This mystery is great -- but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with 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 will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use 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 give this command -- not I, but the Lord -- a wife should not divorce a husband

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

When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.

Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman."

Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

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

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?

If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one's food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

"If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and has sexual relations with her, he must surely endow her to be his wife.

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife --

and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?

You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.

But when the king came in to see the wedding guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.

Let us rejoice and exult and give him glory, because the wedding celebration of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.

He went to be registered with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him, and who was expecting a child.