Christian Marriage

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. — read the full passage →

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Let all your things be done with charity.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. — read the full passage →

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

When a man hath 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 cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. — read the full passage →

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

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.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. — read the full passage →

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? — read the full passage →

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest. — read the full passage →

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. — read the full passage →

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

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

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. — read the full passage →

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. — read the full passage →

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. — read the full passage →

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,