13 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled

There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife!

For John had said to him 'You have no right to be living with her.'

For John had said to Herod--'You have no right to be living with your brother's wife.'

And said--'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife, and the man and his wife shall become one'?

"If that," said the disciples, "is the position of a man with regard to his wife, it is better not to marry."

To those who are married my direction is-yet it is not mine, but the Master's-that a woman is not to leave her husband

I, however, say to you that any one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of her unchastity, leads to her committing adultery; while any one who marries her after her divorce is guilty of adultery.

The Presiding-Officer should be a man of blameless character; a faithful husband; living a temperate, discreet, and well-ordered life; hospitable, and a skillful teacher,

They are to be men of irreproachable character, who are faithful husbands, whose children are Christians and have never been charged with dissolute conduct or have been unruly.

Assistant-Officers should be faithful husbands, and men who rule their children and their households well.

A widow, when her name is added to the list, should not be less than sixty years old; she should have been a faithful wife,

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but, if the husband should pass to his rest, the widow is free to marry any one she wishes, provided he is a believer.

For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband while he is living; but, if her husband dies, she is set free from the law that bound her to him.