The Meaning Of Marriage

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

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 →

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

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

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

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

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 →

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

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

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.” — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — 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.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

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 →

If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, — read the full passage →

The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty 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 suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

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

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

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

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

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

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

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

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

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

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.

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

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 →

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 don’t have love, I am nothing.

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

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

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 →

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created 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 everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to 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 humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with 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 don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — 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.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor 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 a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

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

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

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

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

If then you 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 assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, 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 married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

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 →

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

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. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

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.

“You shall not commit adultery.

The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.

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 →

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 sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride.”

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.” — read the full passage →

Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”