Marriages

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

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

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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

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.

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.

I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know Jehovah.

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

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. — read the full passage →

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

Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

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 →

and great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. — read the full passage →

For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. — read the full passage →

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

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — read the full passage →

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

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

because we are members of his body. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

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 →

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

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.

And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

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

And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

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

For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of 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 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.

But at midnight there is a cry, Behold, the bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him.

And every one that hath left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.

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.

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters: and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

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

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God. — read the full passage →

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: — read the full passage →

and they asked him, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, that if a man’s brother die, having a wife, and he be childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

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.

For no word from God shall be void of power.

to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.

Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave a wife behind him, and leave no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. — read the full passage →

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 John said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife.

For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife; for he had married her.

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

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

saying, Teacher, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless.

But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment:

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

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

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.

Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god.

And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

When Jehovah spake at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah.

Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou becamest mine.

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.

Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.