13 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.

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

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

and he said, On this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

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

But the married I charge, not I, but the Lord, Let not a wife separate from her husband,

But I tell you, that whoever puts away his wife, except for adultery, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries her that is put away, commits adultery.

It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach,

if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of intemperance or of insubordination.

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

Let not a widow be enrolled under sixty years of age, a wife of one husband,

A woman is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead then she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

For a woman under a husband is bound by law to a living husband; but if the husband has died she is released from the law of the husband.