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;

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 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.

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 →

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.

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 →

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