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The Meaning Of Marriage

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Ephesians 5:25–32

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

Ephesians 5:31

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

Hebrews 13:4

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

1 Corinthians 7:1–16

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

Ephesians 5:25

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

Ephesians 5:22–33

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

Romans 13:8–10

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

Matthew 19:4–5

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 →

Matthew 19:1–30

And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

Ephesians 5:31–32

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 →

Mark 10:2–12

And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:7

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.

1 Peter 3:1–6

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; — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:9

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.

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

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 →

John 14:14

If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do.

John 2:1

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:

1 Timothy 5:9

Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

Romans 1:18

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;

Colossians 3:19

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

Ephesians 5:33

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

Matthew 1:18

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Ephesians 5:28

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

2 Corinthians 6:14

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

1 Corinthians 13:4–8

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

Mark 10:9

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

1 Peter 3:1

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;

Colossians 3:18–19

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

1 Corinthians 7:39

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.

Matthew 19:6

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

Matthew 19:5

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

Matthew 19:4–6

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 →

Revelation 4:4

And round about the throne were four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones I saw four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold.

Titus 2:4–5

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:13

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

1 Corinthians 13:4–5

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

1 Corinthians 13:2

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.

1 Corinthians 7:10–11

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 →

Matthew 5:32

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.

1 John 4:7

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

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Ephesians 5:21–24

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

Ephesians 4:2–3

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

Ephesians 4:2

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

1 Corinthians 11:3

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.

1 Corinthians 6:16

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

Mark 10:6–9

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

1 Peter 4:8

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

Colossians 3:14

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

Colossians 3:1

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Ephesians 5:25–27

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

Ephesians 5:25–33

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

Ephesians 5:21–33

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

2 Corinthians 11:2

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.

1 Corinthians 7:15

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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

Luke 16:18

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.

Mark 10:8

and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

Matthew 19:12

For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

Matthew 19:4

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

Matthew 19:3

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

Revelation 21:9

And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were laden with the seven last plagues; and he spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

Revelation 21:2

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 19:7–9

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

Revelation 19:7

Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.