12 Bible Verses About Marriage
12 Bible verses about Marriage to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.
This is why a man will leave his father and mother and cling to his wife, and the two will be one flesh.
All of you should treat marriage as precious and keep the marriage bed undefiled; God will judge those who are sexually immoral and those who are unfaithful in marriage.
What God has yoked together, then, no human being is to separate.”
The man who finds a wife finds something good and receives favor from the LORD.
Love is patient; love is kind. Love does not envy, does not show off, is not puffed up. It does not behave shamefully, it does not look for its own advantage, it does not lose its temper, and it does not keep a tally of wrongs. It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but shares the joy of the truth. There is nothing love cannot bear, no time when it stops believing or hoping, nothing it cannot endure.
Over all of these put on love, which binds everything together and makes it complete.
Set me as a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm, for love is as strong as death, its passion as relentless as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a mighty flame. Mighty waters cannot put out love, and rivers cannot wash it away. If a man offered all the wealth of his house for love, he would be laughed to scorn.
Two are better than one, since together they get a good return for their hard work. If one of them falls, the other can help that one up. But woe to anyone who falls alone, with no one else to help them up!
May your spring be blessed; find your joy in the woman you married when you were young, a lovely doe, a graceful mountain goat. Let her breasts content you at every season, and let her love carry you away always.
But because sexual immorality is all around, each man is to have relations with his own wife. Each woman, too, is to have relations with her own husband. A husband must give his wife what he owes her in marriage, and a wife must do the same for her husband.
Did he not make them one, with a portion of spirit in their union? And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let no one be unfaithful to the wife of his youth.