27 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled

Thou shalt not desire thy friend's house, thou shalt not desire thy friend's wife, and his servant and his maid and his ox and his ass and all which is to thy friend.

and thou shalt not desire thy friend's wife; and thou shalt not long for thy friend's house, his field, and his servant, and his maid, his ox and his ass, and all that is to thy friend.

A man shall not take his father's wife and shall not uncover his father's wing.

And a wife to her sister thou shalt not take to press to uncover her nakedness with her, in her living.

A man who shall take a woman and her mother, it wickedness: in fire they shall be burnt, he and they: and there shall not be wickedness in the midst of you.

In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife.

And a man who shall take his brother's wife, it is uncleanness: he uncovered his brother's nakedness: they shall die childless.

For John said to him, It is not lawful for thee to have her:

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

This the word which Jehovah commanded to the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, To the good in their eyes they shall be for wives; only to the families of the tribe of their fathers shall they be for wives. And the inheritance of the sons of Israel shall not remove from tribe to tribe; for the sons of Israel shall cleave each to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. And every daughter possessing an inheritance from the tribe of the sons of Israel, to one of the families of the tribe of her father shall she be for wife, so that the sons of Israel shall possess each the inheritance of his fathers.read more.
And the inheritance shall not remove from a tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the sons of Israel shall cleave each to his inheritance. As Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: For Mahlah, Tirzah and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, shall be to the sons of their uncles for wives. To some of the families of the sons of Manasseh, son of Joseph, they were for wives, and their inheritance shall be to the tribe of the families of their fathers.

And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?

His disciples say to him, If the cause of a man is so with the woman, it is not profitable to marry.

And to the married I announce, (not I, but the Lord,) The wife not to be separated from the husband:

They shall not take a woman, a harlot, or profane; and they shall not take a wife driven away from her husband, for he is holy to his God.

And he shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, and the driven away, and profane, and an harlot, those he shall not take: but a virgin of his people shall he take a wife.

A widow, and the driven away, and profane, and an harlot, those he shall not take: but a virgin of his people shall he take a wife.

And they Shall not take a widow and her thrust away, to them for wives: but virgins from the seed of the house of Israel, and a widow which shall be a widow from a priest, shall they take.

But I say to you, That whosoever shall let go his wife except for the reason of adultery, makes her to commit adultery; and whosoever should marry her having been loosed, commits adultery.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly.

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

Let not a widow be chosen less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,

The woman was bound by law for as much time as her husband lives; and if her husband be set to sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

For a married woman is bound by the law to a living husband; and if the husband die, she is left inactive from the law of the husband.

If he shall come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he possessed a wife, and his wife shall go forth with him.

If his lord shall give to hint a wife, and she brought to him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be to her lord, and he shall go forth by himself.

When a man shall take a new wife, he shall not go out in the war, and nothing shall pass upon him for any word: he shall be free to his house one year, and gladden his wife whom he took.