Marriage After Death

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

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.

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

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 →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection. — read the full passage →

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. — read the full passage →

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.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

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

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

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

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

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

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

I heard the voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; — read the full passage →

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, — read the full passage →

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

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 →

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

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

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

Honor widows who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. — read the full passage →

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. — read the full passage →

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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

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.

Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

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

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, — read the full passage →

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

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. — read the full passage →

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”