40 Bible Verses about matrimony

and they that were two shall be made one flesh, so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Ask me for as much dowry and gift as ye desire, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me; but give me the damsel to wife.

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

but he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

they shall forbid to marry and shall command men to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are faithful and have known the truth.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence, and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

So then he that gives her in marriage does well, but he that does not give her in marriage does better.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have affliction in the flesh, but I forbear you.

This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the congregation .

take wives and beget sons and daughters; give wives unto your sons and give husbands unto your daughters, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be multiplied there and not diminished.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

For the husband is the head of the wife even as the Christ is head of the congregation , and it is he who gives saving health to the body.

Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

For when they shall rise from the dead, neither shall they marry nor husbands take women nor women, husbands; but are as the angels who are in the heavens.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife separate from her husband;

His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.

When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business; but he shall be free at home one year and shall cheer up his wife whom he has taken.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Let marriage be honourable in all and the bed undefiled; but the fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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

For the woman who is subject to a husband is obligated to the law so long as the husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law of the husband.

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

For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

If he takes another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish.

If a man should entice a virgin that is not betrothed and lie with her, he shall surely endow her and take her to be his wife.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

Thy fountain shall be blessed; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

and Jesus and his disciples were also called to the marriage.

And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who did not have on a wedding garment,

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser; she was of a great age and had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity,

Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

Let us be glad and rejoice and give glory to him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his bride has made herself ready.

to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.