39 Bible Verses about couples

and the two will become one flesh.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

I command the married—not I, but the Lord—a wife is not to leave her husband.

I tell you, on that night two will be in one bed: One will be taken and the other will be left.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate.”

Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.”

and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

“When a man takes a bride, he must not go out with the army or be liable for any duty. He is free to stay at home for one year, so that he can bring joy to the wife he has married.

A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

And I say this, brothers: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,

Also make 50 gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single unit.

If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

Also, if two lie down together, they can keep warm; but how can one person alone keep warm?

Do not deprive one another sexually—except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

A wife does not have the right over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband does not have the right over his own body, but his wife does.

Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.

A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wants—only in the Lord.

submitting to one another
in the fear of Christ.

However, he kept back part of the proceeds with his wife’s knowledge, and brought a portion of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.

Both were righteous in God’s sight, living without blame according to all the commands and requirements of the Lord.

so let’s make a small room upstairs and put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp there for him. Whenever he comes, he can stay there.”

“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”

For the unbelieving husband is set apart for God by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is set apart for God by the husband. Otherwise your children would be corrupt, but now they are set apart for God.

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

followed the Israelite man into the tent, and drove it through both the Israelite man and the woman—through her belly. Then the plague on the Israelites was stopped,

Gather the people;
sanctify the congregation;
assemble the aged;
gather the children,
even those nursing at the breast.
Let the groom leave his bedroom,
and the bride her honeymoon chamber.

Then Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the proceeds from the field?

Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger,

If a man commits adultery with a married woman—if he commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,

Can two walk together
without agreeing to meet?

“If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

But if any man thinks he is acting improperly toward his virgin, if she is past marriageable age, and so it must be, he can do what he wants. He is not sinning; they can get married.

to give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me in your presence, for the full price, as a burial place.”

When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. After Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained the way of God to him more accurately.