Topic

Who You Should Marry

25 verses · ranked by helpfulness

2 Corinthians 6:14

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Proverbs 31:10–31

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

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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

Genesis 2:18

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

Deuteronomy 7:3–4

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. — read the full passage →

Romans 7:2

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Matthew 19:4–6

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Mark 10:12

And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Ephesians 5:22–33

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Numbers 36:6

This is the thing which the Lord doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.

Leviticus 18:6–12

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 5:10

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Luke 16:18

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

Matthew 19:9

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Mark 10:2–12

And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:32

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Deuteronomy 24:1–4

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

Mark 10:10

And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.

Leviticus 21:13–14

And he shall take a wife in her virginity. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 18:22

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

Isaiah 1:1–31

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 18:16

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.

Leviticus 18:7

The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: KJV.