The Marriage Ceremony

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; — read the full passage →

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to 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 →

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways. — read the full passage →

Let all that you do be done in love.

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 →

Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. — read the full passage →

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

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. — 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.

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

“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. — 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 →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” — read the full passage →

The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. — read the full passage →

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

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.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

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

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

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. — read the full passage →

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.

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live 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 →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will 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 therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — 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 →

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

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 →

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friends

My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

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

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

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

For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

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

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 →

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

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

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

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.