13 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality such as is unknown even among pagans ??that a man has taken his father's wife!

since John had told him, "You have no right to her."

John had told Herod, "You have no right to your brother's wife."

said, Hence a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and the pair shall be one flesh?

The disciples said to him, "If that is a man's position with his wife, there is no good in marrying."

For married people these are my instructions (and they are the Lord's, not mine). A wife is not to separate from her husband ??11 if she has separated, she must either remain single or be reconciled to him ??and a husband must not put away his wife.

But I tell you, anyone who divorces his wife for any reason except unchastity makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher,

men who are above reproach, only once married, with children who believe and who are not liable to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate.

Deacons are only to be married once, and they must manage their children and households properly.

No one under sixty is to be put on the church's list of widows; and she must have been only once married,

A woman is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if he dies, she is free to marry anyone she pleases ??only, it must be a Christian.

Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is alive; but if the husband dies, she is done with the law of 'the husband.'