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:

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

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 →

And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. — read the full passage →

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

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

And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; — read the full passage →

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

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

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.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

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 →

And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. — read the full passage →

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, — read the full passage →

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

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

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

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. — read the full passage →

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

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 →

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. — read the full passage →

But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

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

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. — 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.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please. — read the full passage →

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 →

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. — read the full passage →

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

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 →

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

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 →

And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

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

This is the thing which Jehovah doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — read the full passage →

Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be contemned.

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

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

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 →

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. — read the full passage →

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

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.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

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

There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. — read the full passage →

And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. — read the full passage →

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 →