Marriage is a sacred vow between a man and woman and the Bible offers many verses that offer guidance for married couples, husbands, wives, newlyweds and engagement. Read verses from the Holy Bible about marriage in relation to God, Jesus Christ, and the Christian faith.
Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day. | Ruth 4:10
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. | Proverbs 31:10
Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. | Romans 7:3
And they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. | Luke 20:28
And you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods. | Exodus 34:16
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. | Genesis 34:12
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. | 1 Corinthians 11:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold. | Genesis 20:3
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. | 1 John 4:7
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. | Matthew 5:32
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? | 2 Corinthians 6:14
Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. | Luke 16:18
For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her. | Mark 6:17
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. | Proverbs 18:22
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. | Ephesians 5:25
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. | Ephesians 5:33
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife. |Proverbs 21:9
Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. | Malachi 2:11
Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well. | 1 Timothy 3:12
Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman; for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God. | 1 Corinthians 11:9-12
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh. | 1 Corinthians 6:16
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander. | 1 Timothy 5:14
That I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell. | Genesis 24:3
Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother. | Genesis 38:8
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. | Deuteronomy 24:5
Marriage is the most basic and significant social relationship to humankind. This relationship must be nurtured and maintained for the welfare of all. Without marriage, society will fail.