26 Bible Verses about Marriage Between Man And Woman

but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world--how he shall please his wife.

There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business--that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world--how she shall please her husband.

A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights.

"If this is the case with a man in relation to his wife," said the disciples to Him, "it is better not to marry."

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband--if he consents to live with her, let her not separate from him.

I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.

But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, but the Lord's--that a wife is not to leave her husband;

At the Resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? for they all married her."

because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.

and the two shall be one'; so that they are two no longer, but 'one.'

"Another said, "'I am just married. It is impossible for me to come.'

A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.

Now we had among us seven brothers. The eldest of them married, but died childless, leaving his wife to his brother.

For what assurance have you, O woman, as to whether you will save your husband? Or what assurance have you, O man, as to whether you will save your wife?

Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.

A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.

For in the Resurrection, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven.

"Teacher," they said, "Moses enjoined, 'If a man die childless, his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.'

For when they have risen from among the dead, men do not marry and women are not given in marriage, but they are as angels are in Heaven.

"The men of this age," replied Jesus, "marry, and the women are given in marriage.

Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.

or if she has already left him, let her either remain as she is or be reconciled to him; and that a husband is not to send away his wife.

That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church.

For, in such cases, the unbelieving husband has become--and is--holy through union with a Christian woman, and the unbelieving wife is holy through union with a Christian brother. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but in reality they have a place among God's people.