Engagement Before Marriage

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

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

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

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

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

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

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

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

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

Let all that you do be done in love.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

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

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. — read the full passage →

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

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

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to 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 assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for 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 through Christ, who strengthens me.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will 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 complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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

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

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

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

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

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

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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.

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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

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

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

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”

For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

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

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

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”

You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

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

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

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

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 →

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

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

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

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. — read the full passage →

The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. — read the full passage →

“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; — read the full passage →

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

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — 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. — read the full passage →