12 Bible Verses about Design Of Marriage

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

And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you: that my covenant which I made with Levi, might stand, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper to bear him company."

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Grow and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over all the beasts that move on the earth.

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, "Increase and multiply and fill the earth.

So did not the one, and yet had he an excellent spirit. What did then the one? He sought the seed promised of God. Therefore look well to your spirit, and let no man despise the wife of his youth.

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

Moreover, I will put hatred between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. And that seed shall tread thee on the head, and thou shalt tread it on the heel."

And Adam lay with Eve his wife, which conceived and bare Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man of the LORD."

I will therefore that the younger women marry and bear children, and guide the house, and give none occasion to the adversary to speak evil.

Let wedlock be had in price in all points, and let the chamber be undefiled: for whore keepers and adulterers God will judge.

The wife is bound to the law as long as her husband liveth. If her husband sleep, she is at liberty to marry with whom she will only in the Lord.