13 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled
Most Relevant Verses
Fornication is truly heard of among you, and such fornication which is not among the heathens, that one should have the wife of his father.
For John said to him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have the wife of thy brother.
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.
His disciples say to Him, If the cause of a man with his wife is thus, it is better not to marry.
But I proclaim to those who have married, not I, but the Lord, That a wife shall not depart from her husband
But I say unto you, that every one sending away his wife, except on account of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever may marry her who has been cast off commits adultery.
Therefore it behooves the bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, modest, prudent, orderly, hospitable, competent to teach,
if any one is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of riot or incorrigible.
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses beautifully.
Let a widow not be taken into account under three score years, the wife of one 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 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.
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