40 Bible Verses about matrimony

and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.

For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

Ask me for as great a bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife."

For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,

But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife,

who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.

But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit.

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband

The disciples said to him, "If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry."

"When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman."

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

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

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.

For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

"If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

"No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?

You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,

Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.

"But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.

And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin,

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready;

to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.