Married

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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

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

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

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

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

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

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

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. — read the full passage →

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

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

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

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

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

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

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. — read the full passage →

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

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.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Let all your things be done with charity.

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. — read the full passage →

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. — read the full passage →

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. — read the full passage →

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. — read the full passage →

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

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

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. — read the full passage →

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →