13 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled

It is commonly reported, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication, as is not even named among the heathens, that one should have his father's wife.

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

For John had said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee, to have thy brother's wife.

And said, For this cause a man shall leave father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh?

His disciples say to him, If the case of a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to marry.

The married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband.

But I say unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife, save for the cause of whoredom, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away, committeth adultery.

A bishop therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, prudent, of good behaviour, hospitable, apt to teach;

If a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of luxury or unruly.

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

Let not a widow be chosen under threescore years old,

The wife is bound as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to marry whom she will; only in the Lord.

For the married woman is bound to her husband while he is alive; but if her husband be dead, she is freed from the law of her husband.