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.

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

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

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.

I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

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

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 →

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

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

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

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 →

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.

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

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

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

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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.

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

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. It shall be, that the man who kills 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 refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

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

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.

This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — 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.

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.

The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.

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.”

Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

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

Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

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.

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

Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”

Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became 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 broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.

“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.