Young Marriage

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

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

But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter, if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry. — read the full passage →

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

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 →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

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

And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. — read the full passage →

And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; — read the full passage →

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

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

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

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter, if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.

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

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. — read the full passage →

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

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

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

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. — read the full passage →

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

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

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

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

Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, — read the full passage →

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

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

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in unto her, and Jehovah gave her conception, and she bare a son.

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →

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

Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both birds, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

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.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. — 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.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, — read the full passage →

But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: because thy supplication is heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. — read the full passage →

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? — read the full passage →

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find? — read the full passage →

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart: — read the full passage →

And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?