39 Bible Verses about couples

and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.

But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband

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

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

“When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains to one another with the clasps so that the tabernacle will be a unit.

If a man lies with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?

Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.

and kept back some of the price for himself, with his wife’s full knowledge, and bringing a portion of it, he laid it at the apostles’ feet.

So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

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

They were both righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord.

Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there.”

“There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many people?”

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, through the body. So the plague on the sons of Israel was checked.

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation,
Assemble the elders,
Gather the children and the nursing infants.
Let the bridegroom come out of his room
And the bride out of her bridal chamber.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

‘If there is a man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, one who commits adultery with his friend’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;

Do two men walk together unless they have made an appointment?

“If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

But if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry.

that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he owns, which is at the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in your presence for a burial site.”

When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand,

and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.