Early Marriage

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry. — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

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

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

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

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

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

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 →

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, — read the full passage →

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior, — 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 →

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.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — 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 →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. — read the full passage →

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

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

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

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

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.” — read the full passage →

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things: — read the full passage →

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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

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

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Let all that you do be done in love.

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — 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.

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.

Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage. — read the full passage →