Topic

Who You Should Marry

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2 Corinthians 6:14

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

Proverbs 31:10–31

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

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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 →

Genesis 2:18

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

Deuteronomy 7:3–4

neither shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. — read the full passage →

Romans 7:2

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.

Matthew 19:4–6

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

Mark 10:12

If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Hebrews 13:4

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

Ephesians 5:22–33

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

Numbers 36:6

This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best; only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.

Leviticus 18:6–12

“‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 5:10

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Ephesians 5:33

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

Luke 16:18

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

Matthew 19:9

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.”

Mark 10:2–12

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

Matthew 5:32

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.

Deuteronomy 24:1–4

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

Mark 10:10

In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.

Leviticus 21:13–14

“‘He shall take a wife in her virginity. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 18:22

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

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

“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.

Leviticus 18:7

“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

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