Marriage Ceremonies

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

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

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.

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 →

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

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

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

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 →

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.

Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.” — read the full passage →

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. — read the full passage →

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, — read the full passage →

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

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

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

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

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.

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — 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.”

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.

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided in your midst. — read the full passage →

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: — read the full passage →

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! — read the full passage →

If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. — read the full passage →

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai. — read the full passage →

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

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →