Engagement Before Marriage

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

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

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

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

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

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →

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

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.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Let all that ye do be done in love.

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.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

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

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love. — read the full passage →

Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

For no word from God shall be void of power.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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.

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

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.

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 →

For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

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

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

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

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; — read the full passage →

For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

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

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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.

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 →

My beloved is mine, and I am his: He feedeth his flock among the lilies.

Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

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

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

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself.

Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?

Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding:

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.

For how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the glory of God through us.

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

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

Brethren, my heart’s desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.

And certain of them that were with us went to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: From whence shall my help come? — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. — read the full passage →

Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding: — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers:

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers: — read the full passage →

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come unto thee.

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 →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

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

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 →

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. — read the full passage →

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: — read the full passage →

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

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 →

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — 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. — read the full passage →