What Marriage Is

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

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

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

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

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

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 →

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.

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

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 →

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, 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, God made them male and female. — 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.”

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?’

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

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

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

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

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

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

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.

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.

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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.”

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,

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. — read the full passage →

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

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

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

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

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

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 →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — 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.”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.