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Bible Verses About Marriage
Bible verses on marriage — love that lasts, husband and wife, weddings.
5 verses · curated by hand
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
"Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
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In chapterSong of Solomon 8:6
"Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh."
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In chapterGenesis 2:18
"Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”"
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In chapterFrom the wider Bible
More verses about marriage in Scripture
384 passages mentioning “wife” across WEB & KJV — beyond the curated set above.
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Genesis 2:24
“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”
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Genesis 2:25
“The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.”
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Genesis 3:8
“They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.”
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Genesis 3:17
“To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.”
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Genesis 3:20
“The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.”
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Genesis 3:21
“Yahweh God made coats of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.”
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Genesis 4:1
“The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.””
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Genesis 4:17
“Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.”
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Genesis 4:25
“Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.””
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Genesis 6:18
“But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.”
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Genesis 7:7
“Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.”
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Genesis 7:13
“In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth — the sons of Noah — and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship —”
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Genesis 8:16
““Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.”
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Genesis 8:18
“Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.”
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Genesis 11:29
“Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.”
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Genesis 11:31
“Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.”
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Genesis 12:5
“Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.”
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Genesis 12:11
“When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.”
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Genesis 12:12
“It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.”
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Genesis 12:17
“Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.”
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