Marriage Laws

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

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

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

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.

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

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

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

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

and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

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 →

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

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

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

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

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

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

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

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

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

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

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

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →

The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

Let all that ye do be done in love.

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

And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

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

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband. — 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.

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

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him. — read the full passage →

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven.

The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

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.

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:

And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her:

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as angels in heaven.

The disciples say unto him, If the case of the man is so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.

It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

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

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

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. — read the full passage →

But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them.

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 →

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God; — read the full passage →

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

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 →

So then both he that giveth his own virgin daughter in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? — read the full passage →

And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.

This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage.

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