The Meaning Of Marriage

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

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. — 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.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

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

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

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

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

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 →

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,

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

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.

And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

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 →

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

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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

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?

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.

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

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;

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

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

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?

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 →

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.

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

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 →

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.

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 →

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.

And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: — read the full passage →

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — read the full passage →

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

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

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. — read the full passage →

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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

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

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

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. — 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him.

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. — read the full passage →

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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 →

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.