13 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled

IT is generally reported that there is whoredom among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

For John said unto him, It is unlawful for thee to have her.

For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

And he said, for this reason shall a man forsake father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

His disciples said unto him, If the case of a man with his wife be thus, it is not expedient to marry.

But to the married not I command, but the Lord, That the wife be not separated from the husband:

But I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except on account of whoredom, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

A bishop then must be irreprehensible, the husband of one wife, temperate, sagacious, respectable, hospitable, well qualified for teaching;

if there be a man blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not under an accusation or debauchery, or disorderly conduct.

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ordering well their children and their own families.

Let no widow be put on the list under sixty years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband,

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband be dead, she is free to be married to whomsoever she will, but only in the Lord.

For the woman who is subject to a husband, is bound by the law to that husband during his life; but if the husband be dead, she is discharged from that husband.