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;

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 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.

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →

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