30 Bible Verses about Marriage, Purpose Of

And He responding said to them, Have you not read, that the one having made them from the beginning made them male and female?

But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.

Moreover neither is the woman without the man in the Lord, nor the man without the woman. For as the woman is from the man, so the man also is by the woman; and all things from God.

And He said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife; and they two shall be one flesh.

On this account a man shall leave his father and his mother, and they two shall be one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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

on account of this a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife: and they two shall be one flesh.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh: therefore what God joined together, let no man separate.

And what God joined together, let no man separate.

For a woman who is under her husband has been given to her husband by the law so long as he lives; but if the husband may die, she is free from the law of the husband.

A wife has been given so long a time as her husband may live; but if her husband may die, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the brother. Since then your children are unclean; but now they are holy.

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

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

And responding Jesus said to them, The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those counted worthy to attain that age and the resurrection, which is from the dead,

But I say this, brethren; that the time is at hand, that moreover indeed those having wives may be as those not having; and those weeping, as those not weeping; and those rejoicing, as those not rejoicing; and those buying, as those not possessing; and those using the world, as those not using it thoroughly: for the fashion of this world is passing away.

but if they do not contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Do you not know that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? for it says, They two shall be one flesh.

Let the husband give to the wife that which is due, and likewise the wife also to the husband. The wife has not the authority over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not the authority over his own body, but the wife. Do not defraud one another, unless it may be with consent for a time, that you may give attention to prayer, and again come together, in order that Satan may not tempt you on account of your incontinency.

Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her;

So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself: for no one ever yet hated his own flesh; but he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church;

Ye husbands, love your wives with divine love, and be not harsh towards them.

Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body. But as the church is submissive to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in everything.

Ye wives, submit to your husbands as is becoming in the Lord.

in order that they instruct the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be prudent, chaste, domestic, good, submissive to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

Likewise, ye wives, be submissive to your own husbands; in order that, if any do not believe the word, they shall be gained through the deportment of their wives, without the word; beholding your chaste deportment which is with reverence: whose beauty, let it not be the external beauty of braiding the hairs, and wearing golds, or putting on of outer garments;read more.
but let their beauty be the hidden man of the heart, in the purity of the meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is perfection complete. For in this way in olden times the holy wives, the ones having hope toward God, were indeed accustomed to beautify themselves, submissive to their own husbands: as Sarah submitted to Abraham, calling him Lord: whose children you have become, doing good, and not fearing any calamity.

But I wish that all men were even as myself; but each one has his own gift from God, some one, and some another. But I speak to the unmarried and the widows, that it is good for them that they may remain even as I:

His disciples say to Him, If the cause of a man with his wife is thus, it is better not to marry. And He said to them, All do not receive this word, but those to whom it has been given. For there are eunuchs, who have been so born from the womb of their mother. And there are eunuchs, who have been eunuchized by men: and there are eunuchs, who eunuchized themselves for the sake of the kingdom of the heavens. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.

But if any one considers that he is acting indiscreetly towards his virgin, if she may be marriageable, and thus it ought so to be, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry. But whosoever stands firm in his heart, having no necessity, and has the right according to his own will, and has determined this in his heart, to keep his virgin, will do well. So indeed he that marries his own virgin does well; and he that marries her not will do better.

But reject the younger widows: for when they may wax wanton against Christ, they wish to marry; having condemnation, because they have rejected their first faith: and at the same time they learn to be idle, going about houses; and not only idle, but also loquacious even busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.read more.
Therefore I wish the younger women to marry, to raise up children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to the adversary for the sake of reproach;