Married Couples

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

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.

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

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 →

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let all that you do be done in love.

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

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 →

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.

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 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.”

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.

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

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;

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →

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 to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

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.”

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

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — 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 →

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.

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

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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 →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →

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.

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.

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

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

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

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