Married Couples

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

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.

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

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 →

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 →

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

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

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

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

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

But, because of fornications, 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 church, and gave himself up for it;

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

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

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

Let all that ye do be done in love.

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

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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.

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.

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 →

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

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

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

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

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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

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

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;

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 unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

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

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

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

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — 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 →

And 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 have not love, I am nothing.

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.

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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 →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritualgifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. — read the full passage →

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

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

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

For no word from God shall be void of power.

Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock:

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh. — read the full passage →

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