Wanting To Be Married

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

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

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

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 →

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. — read the full passage →

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

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 →

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 →

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.

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

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

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

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — 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.

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

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry. — read the full passage →

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — read the full passage →

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

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

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — 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.

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 created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

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

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

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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.

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;

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.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

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

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 →

Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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.

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

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

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

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

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 →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. — read the full passage →

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

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

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

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

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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?’

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? — read the full passage →

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.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

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 →

“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 →

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

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.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

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

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.