13 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled

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

for John said to Him, It is not lawful for thee to have her: and he would have put him to death,

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

and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh:

His disciples say unto Him, if the case of a man with his wife be thus, it is not adviseable to marry:

But those that are married, not I command, but the Lord, that the wife be not separated from her husband;

but I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except on account of whoredom, tempteth her to commit adultery; and if any man marry her that is divorced, he committeth adultery.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, sober, prudent, grave,

to wit, if any one be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of debauchery, or unruly.

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

Let not a widow be chosen into the number under sixty years old,

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord:

For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband die, she is discharged from the law of her husband.