Marriage (Bible Verses)

What does the Bible say about Marriage? Explore this dedicated resource for a comprehensive study of the scriptures and key verses related to Marriage. This guide is designed to cater to both beginners and advanced students of the Bible, providing a deeper understanding of Bible themes and their significance. Dive into a rich tapestry of historical contexts, detailed exegesis, and thematic studies that offer practical applications and spiritual guidance. Engage with the transformative power of scripture as we uncover the meaning, divine wisdom, and eternal truths about the Bible verses related to the topic of Marriage, enhancing how we perceive and live out our faith.

Genesis 2:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Hebrews 13:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Matthew 5:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Ephesians 5:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Proverbs 18:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Romans 7:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Colossians 3:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Matthew 19:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Exodus 20:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Ephesians 5:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Matthew 19:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Matthew 5:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

Ephesians 5:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Genesis 2:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

1 Corinthians 7:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Ephesians 5:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Matthew 19:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

1 Corinthians 7:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Colossians 3:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Matthew 19:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Ephesians 5:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

1 Peter 3:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Psalms 45:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

Proverbs 12:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Deuteronomy 24:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor 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.

Mark 10:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Genesis 2:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Mark 10:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

Matthew 19:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

Genesis 24:49 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

Genesis 24:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.

1 Corinthians 7:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Song of Solomon 8:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

Matthew 19:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

Mark 10:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

Numbers 5:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:

Song of Solomon 3:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Mark 12:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

1 Corinthians 7:38 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

Deuteronomy 22:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

Lamentations 5:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

Matthew 19:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

Mark 10:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Mark 10:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

Genesis 29:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

Mark 10:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

Genesis 24:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

1 Samuel 25:44 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.

1 Corinthians 7:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

Genesis 24:67 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Mark 10:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

Matthew 19:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

Genesis 24:53 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.

Leviticus 18:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

Mark 10:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

Genesis 24:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

Leviticus 21:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

Genesis 29:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

Genesis 29:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

Deuteronomy 24:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

Mark 10:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.

Genesis 24:66 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.

Song of Solomon 3:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

Mark 10:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

1 Corinthians 7:36 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

Mark 12:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.

2 Chronicles 11:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.

Deuteronomy 22:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:

Genesis 29:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

Bible Theme & Topic Recap: Marriage

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