Engagement

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. — read the full passage →

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

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

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

For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.

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

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

For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever. — read the full passage →

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: — read the full passage →

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

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

And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: — read the full passage →

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

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

Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. — read the full passage →

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; — read the full passage →