Christian Marriage

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

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

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love 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 for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

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

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Let all that ye do be done in love.

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

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh. — read the full passage →

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

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

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

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

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

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even 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 on him should not perish, but have eternal 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 worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

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

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: 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 on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

And if a man prevail against him that is alone, 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 begotten of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

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

Wives, be in subjection 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;

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are 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, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →

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

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

It was but a little that I passed from them, When 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 labor.

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find? — read the full passage →

Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

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

And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him. — read the full passage →

And on the seventh day God finished 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 understand hereafter.

Let love of the brethren 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 her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery. — read the full passage →

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

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not 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 Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.

Oh give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; Make known among the peoples his doings. — read the full passage →

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,