13 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled

It is generally reported that there is lewdness among you; and such lewdness as is not even mentioned among the Gentiles that a certain one has his father's wife.

For John said to him: It is not lawful for you to have her.

For John said to Herod: It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.

and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

His disciples said to him: If the relation of man and wife be such, it is not good to marry.

But to the married I give commandment, not I, but the Lord: Let not the wife leave her husband:

But I say to you, Whoever shall put away his wife, unless on account of lewdness, causes her to commit adultery: and whoever marries her that is divorced, commits adultery.

A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach,

if any one is blameless, the husband of one wife, if he has faithful children that are not accused of riotous living, or disobedient.

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Let a widow be put on the list, if she is not under sixty years, having been the wife of one man,

The wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband die, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.

For the woman that has a husband, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives: but if her husband die, she is loosed from the law of her husband.