Bible Verse | Marriage

Marriage, a sacred bond uniting two hearts, is a theme woven intricately throughout the Bible. In its pages, we discover a wealth of guidance, love, and wisdom imparted to enrich and fortify the marital union. Bible verses that illuminate the path of marriage, offering insights and principles that stand the test of time.

Bible Verses: Marriage

Genesis 2:24: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."

Ephesians 5:25: "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her."

Proverbs 18:22: "He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord."

1 Corinthians 7:3: "The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband."

1 Peter 3:7: "Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life."

Malachi 2:16: "For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts."

Matthew 19:6: "So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

Colossians 3:18-19: "Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them."

1 Corinthians 13:4-7: "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful..."

Hebrews 13:4: "Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous."

Proverbs 19:14: "House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord."

Mark 10:9: "What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

Proverbs 31:10: "An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels."

1 Corinthians 7:2: "But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband."

Ephesians 4:2-3: "With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."

Proverbs 31:30: "Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."

Song of Solomon 8:7: "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised."

1 Corinthians 7:10-11: "To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband..."

Proverbs 12:4: "An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones."

Ephesians 4:32: "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you."

Proverbs 21:9: "It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife."

1 Peter 4:8: "Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins."

Proverbs 14:1: "The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down."

1 Corinthians 13:13: "So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

Ephesians 5:33: "However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband."

Proverbs 20:6-7: "Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find? The righteous who walks in his integrity—blessed are his children after him!"

1 Corinthians 7:39: "A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord."

Proverbs 31:12: "She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life."

Matthew 19:4-6: "He answered, 'Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?"

1 Timothy 5:8: "But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."