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 never so much dower and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me: but give me the damsel for a 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, is anxious for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by them who believe and know the truth.

Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.

Wherefore they are no more two, but one flesh. Therefore what God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they two shall be 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 giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

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

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

Take ye 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 ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Nevertheless, to avoid lewdness, 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.

Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell in it: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes of it.

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

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

When a man hath newly taken a 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 his wife which he hath taken.

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

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but lewd persons 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 hath a husband, is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband is dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

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

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

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

And if a man shall 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 to 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.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy 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 shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give to his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take to thy 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 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;

Art thou bound to 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 honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

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