Topic

Common Law Marriages

18 verses · ranked by helpfulness

Hebrews 13:4

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

Genesis 2:24

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

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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

Proverbs 5:18–19

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

Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Genesis 2:18

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

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:1–31

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. — read the full passage →

1 Thessalonians 4:13–18

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 10:13

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Romans 1:26–27

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →

Psalms 91:1–16

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Psalms 46:1–11

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. — read the full passage →

Exodus 20:13

Thou shalt not kill.

Genesis 2:7

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:1–25

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →

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