13 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled

A case of immorality is reported as actually existing among you, an immorality unheard of even among the heathen that a man cohabits with his father's wife.

for John had said to him, "It is not right for you to have her as wife."

For John kept saying to Herod, "It is not right for you to be living with your brother's wife."

and said, 'For this reason a man must leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two of them must be one!'

The disciples said to Him, "If that is a man's relation to his wife, there is no advantage in getting married."

To the people already married I give this instruction -- no, not I but the Lord -- that a wife is not to leave her husband.

But I tell you that whoever divorces his wife for any other ground than unfaithfulness, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a wife who is thus divorced commits adultery.

So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching;

each elder must be above reproach, have only one wife, and his children must not be liable to the charge of profligacy or disobedience.

A deacon too must have only one wife, and manage his children and household well.

No widow under sixty years of age should be put on this roll. A widow must have had but one husband,

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she pleases, except that he must be a Christian.

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is freed from the marriage bond.