Wedding Ceremony

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

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

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 →

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

Let all that ye do be done in love.

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

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

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →

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

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice. — read the full passage →

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

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

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

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

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

Here is the patience of the saints, they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

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.

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. — read the full passage →

Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. — read the full passage →

And he said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.

There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love. — read the full passage →

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, — read the full passage →

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

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 →

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →

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

Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock: — 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. — read the full passage →

After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and power, belong to our God:

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.

I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,

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

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

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.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men. — read the full passage →

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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.

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →