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.
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth. | Genesis 1:28
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 from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. | Mark 10:6-9
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 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 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
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
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. | Proverbs 18:22
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. | Ephesians 5:33
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. | Ephesians 5:25
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. | Leviticus 20:13
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. | Jude 1:7
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
Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well. | 1 Timothy 3:12
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
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality. | 1 Corinthians 6:9
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander. | 1 Timothy 5:14
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
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. | Galatians 3:28
Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. | Jeremiah 29:6
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
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
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. | Leviticus 18:22
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. | Colossians 3:18
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
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. | Mark 10:9
You shall not commit adultery. | Exodus 20:14