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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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1 Samuel 18:27
“David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.”
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1 Samuel 19:11
“Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.””
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1 Samuel 25:3
“Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.”
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1 Samuel 25:14
“But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he insulted them.”
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1 Samuel 25:37
“In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.”
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1 Samuel 25:39
“When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.”
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1 Samuel 25:40
“When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.””
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1 Samuel 25:42
“Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.”
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1 Samuel 25:44
“Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.”
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1 Samuel 27:3
“David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.”
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1 Samuel 30:5
“David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.”
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1 Samuel 30:22
“Then all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.””
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2 Samuel 2:2
“So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.”
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2 Samuel 3:3
“and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;”
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2 Samuel 3:5
“and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.”
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2 Samuel 3:14
“David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.””
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2 Samuel 11:3
“David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?””
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2 Samuel 11:11
“Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!””
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2 Samuel 11:26
“When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.”
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2 Samuel 11:27
“When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.”
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