Marriages

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 →

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 →

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

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

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

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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.”

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 →

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

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 →

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 →

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

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

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

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

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

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.

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

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.”

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

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

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

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

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

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God. — read the full passage →

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

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

They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

“Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’ — read the full passage →

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

For John said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

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

saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.’

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,

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

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

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.