40 Bible Verses about matrimony

And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,

But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.

So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better.

If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

When they come back from the dead, they do not get married, but are like the angels in heaven.

But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.

A newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort of his wife.

Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.

For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?

And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.

If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

And Jesus with his disciples came as guests.

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;

And there was one, Anna, a woman prophet, the daughter of Phanuel, of the family of Asher (she was very old, and after seven years of married life

If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.

Let us be glad with delight, and let us give glory to him: because the time is come for the Lamb to be married, and his wife has made herself ready.

To be put on the list with Mary, his future wife, who was about to become a mother.