The Marriage Ceremony

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — 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 →

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

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

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto 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 →

Let all that ye do be done in love.

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 →

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

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men. — 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.

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 →

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: — 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 →

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. — read the full passage →

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

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

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

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

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

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him. — read the full passage →

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.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

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

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — 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 →

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

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

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:

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

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

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

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, — read the full passage →

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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 →