Christian Marriage

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

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

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to 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 Yahweh.

Let all that you do be done in love.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

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

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

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

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to 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 one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

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

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? — read the full passage →

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

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

The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him. — read the full passage →

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be 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 to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.” — read the full passage →

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

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

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

neither shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. — read the full passage →

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples. — read the full passage →

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,