What Marriage Is

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

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.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

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.

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

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

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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

And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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 →

For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

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

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

So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

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.

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — 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.

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 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 →

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

And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

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.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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

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,

because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved: — read the full passage →

And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:

For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

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

It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?

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

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

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.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.