27 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled

Do not covet (desire) another man's house. Do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.

Do not desire another man's wife; do not covet another man's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his donkey, or any thing that belongs to him.'

A man must not have sexual intercourse with his father's wife. This would violate his father.

While your wife is living, never marry her sister as a rival wife and have sexual intercourse with her.

When a man marries a woman and her mother, they have done a perverted thing. The man and the two women must be burned. Never do this perverted thing.

It is reported that there is sexual immorality among you. This type of fornication is not even found among the people of the nations (who do not know God). There is a man who has his father's wife.

He who marries his brother's wife violates his brother's marriage and does an unclean thing. That man and woman will have no children.

For John had said to him: It is not lawful for you to have her.

John said to Herod: It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.

and so Jehovah says that the daughters of Zelophehad are free to marry anyone they wish but only within their own tribe. The property of every Israelite will remain attached to his tribe. Every woman who inherits property in an Israelite tribe must marry a man belonging to that tribe. In this way all Israelites will inherit the property of their ancestors,read more.
and the property will not pass from one tribe to another. Each tribe will continue to possess its own property. Zelophehad's daughters did as Jehovah commanded Moses. Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah married their cousins on their father's side of the family. They married within the families of the descendants of Manasseh, son of Joseph. So their land stayed in the tribe of their father's family.

For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. The two shall become one flesh.

The disciples said to him: This being the case between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.

To the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord commands do not let the wife depart from her husband.

Never marry prostitutes, those who have lost their virginity, or divorced women because a priest is God's holy man.

The anointed priest should marry a virgin. He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, a woman who has lost her virginity, or a prostitute. He may only marry a virgin from his own people.

He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, a woman who has lost her virginity, or a prostitute. He may only marry a virgin from his own people.

They must not marry widows or women who have been divorced. They may marry only virgins from the nation of Israel or widows of priests.'

I say to you that everyone divorcing his wife, except for the reason of fornication, makes her liable to commit adultery. And if she marries again, the man she marries also commits adultery.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach;

A blameless man will be the husband of one wife. He will have children that believe and who are not accused of violence and disobedience.

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Let a widow be put on the list if she is under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

The wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

Law binds the married woman to her husband while he lives. But if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

If he was single at the time you bought him he alone must be set free. If he was married at that time, both he and his wife must be given their freedom.

If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master. He shall go out alone.

A newly married man must not be drafted into the army or charged with any duty. He shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to the wife he has married.