40 Bible Verses about matrimony

And they two shall be one flesh: so then they are no more two, but one flesh.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as you shall say unto me: but give me the damsel for my wife.

For as in the days that were before the flood they were 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.

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them who believe and know the truth.

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Therefore they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.

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

They did eat, 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 gives her not in marriage does better.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Take yourself wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that you may be increased 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 Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.

You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels who are in heaven.

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

His disciples said unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good 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 bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

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

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the bed undefiled: but 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 has a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband dies, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

The wife has not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power over his own body, but the wife.

For how do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?

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

And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow 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 man of illegitimate birth shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?

Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give unto his son, nor his daughter shall you take unto your son.

And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

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

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

Are you bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.

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