Early Marriage

But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter, if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry. — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

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 →

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

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, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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 →

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

But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: — read the full passage →

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter, if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.

And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. — 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 →

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.

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

But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed 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 do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that. — read the full passage →

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

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

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

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

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — 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 →

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled. — read the full passage →

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →

Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. — read the full passage →

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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

And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These things saith he that hath the sharp two-edged sword: — read the full passage →

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

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

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

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

Let all that ye do be done in love.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — 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.

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.

And Jesus said unto them, The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage: — read the full passage →