27 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled
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"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house: neither shalt covet thy neighbor's wife, his manservant, his maid, his ox, his ass or ought that is his."
'Thou shalt not lust after thy neighbour's wife: thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, field, servant, maid, ox, ass nor ought that is thy neighbour's.'
No man shall take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's covering.
Thou shalt not take a wife and her sister thereto, to vex her that thou wouldest open her privities as long as she liveth.
If a man take a wife and her mother thereto, it is wickedness. Men shall burn with fire both him and them, that there be no wickedness among you.
There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife.
If a man take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing; he hath uncovered his brother's privities, they shall be childless therefore.
For John said unto him, "It is not lawful for thee to have her."
John said unto Herod, "It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife."
This, therefore, doeth the LORD: 'Command the daughters of Zelophehad, saying: let them be wives to whom they themself think best, but in the kindred of the tribe of their fathers shall they marry, that the inheritance of the children of Israel roll not from tribe to tribe. But that the children of Israel may abide, every man, in the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. And every daughter that possesseth any inheritance among the tribes of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the kindred of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his father,read more.
and that the inheritance go not from one tribe to another: but that the tribes of the children of Israel may abide, every man, in his own inheritance.'" And as the LORD commanded Moses, even so did the daughters of Zelophehad: Mahela, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah, and were married unto their fathers' brothers' sons, of the kindred of the children of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and so they had their inheritance in the tribe of the kindred of their father.
and said, 'For this thing, shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh.'
Then said his disciples to him, "If the matter be so between man and wife, then is it not good to marry."
Unto the married command not I, but the Lord: that the wife separate not herself from the man.
"'They shall take no wife that is an whore, or polluted, or put from her husband: for a priest is holy unto his God.
"'He shall take a maiden unto his wife: but no widow nor divorced nor polluted whore. But he shall take a maiden of his own people to wife,
but no widow nor divorced nor polluted whore. But he shall take a maiden of his own people to wife,
They shall marry no widow, neither one that is put from her husband: but a maiden of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that hath had a priest before.
But I say unto you, Whosoever put away his wife, except it be for fornication, causeth her to break matrimony. And whosoever marryeth her that is divorced breaketh wedlock.
Yea, and a bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, honestly appareled, harborous, apt to teach,
If any be faultless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife and such as rule their children well, and their own households.
Let no widow be chosen under sixty years old, and such a one as was the wife of one man,
The wife is bound to the law as long as her husband liveth. If her husband sleep, she is at liberty to marry with whom she will only in the Lord.
For the woman which is in subjection to a man, is bound by the law to the man, as long as he liveth. If the man be dead, she is loosed from the law of the man.
If he came alone, he shall go out alone: If he came married, his wife shall go out with him.
And if his master have given him a wife and she have borne him sons or daughters: then the wife and her children shall be her master's and he shall go out alone.
When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go a warfare neither shall be charged with any business: but shall be free at home one year and rejoice with his wife which he hath taken.
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