Marriage Laws

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

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

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 →

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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

If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

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.

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

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

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 →

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

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

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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

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

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 →

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 all that you do be done in love.

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.

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. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

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 don’t have love, I am nothing.

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

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

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

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.

Yahweh said to Moses, — 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.

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

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

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

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

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

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.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

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.

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →

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.

“‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

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.”

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — 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. — read the full passage →

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

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

For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

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? May it never be!

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 from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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 →

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; — read the full passage →

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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

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 →

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

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

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

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.

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