Marriage vows are promises each partner in a couple makes to the other during a wedding ceremony based upon Western Christian norms. They are not universal to marriage and not necessary in most legal jurisdictions. They are not even universal within Christian marriage, as Eastern Christians do not have marriage vows in their traditional wedding ceremonies.
And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery. | Mark 10:12
And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. | Mark 10:11
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. | 1 Corinthians 7:39
But if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. | 1 Corinthians 7:11
But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. | 1 Corinthians 7:15
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. | 1 Corinthians 7:2
But if you refrain from vowing, you will not be guilty of sin. | Deuteronomy 23:22
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 two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet? | Amos 3:3
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
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun. | Ecclesiastes 9:9
For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless. | Malachi 2:16
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. | Romans 7:2
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 was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce. | Matthew 5:31
I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people. | Psalm 116:18
It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce. | Matthew 5:31
I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? | Job 31:1
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. | Hebrews 13:4
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. | 1 Peter 3:7
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. | 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. | James 4:17
To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. | 1 Corinthians 7:12-13
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” | Genesis 2:18
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken. | Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach. | 1 Timothy 3:2
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. | Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. | Ephesians 5:31
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. | Ephesians 5:22
When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. | Ecclesiastes 5:4
When a couple exchanges wedding vows they are creating a moral, legal and spiritual commitment to each other. Those vows are meant to hold them together in tough times.