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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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Proverbs 6:26
“For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.”
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Proverbs 6:29
“So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.”
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Proverbs 12:4
“A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.”
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Proverbs 18:22
“Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.”
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Proverbs 19:13
“A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.”
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Proverbs 19:14
“House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.”
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Proverbs 23:27
“For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.”
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Proverbs 27:15
“A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:”
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Ecclesiastes 9:9
“Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.”
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Isaiah 54:1
““Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.”
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Isaiah 54:6
“For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.”
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Jeremiah 3:1
““They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.”
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Jeremiah 3:20
““Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.”
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Jeremiah 5:8
“They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.”
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Jeremiah 6:11
“Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.”
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Jeremiah 16:2
““You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.””
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Ezekiel 16:32
““‘“A wife who commits adultery! Who takes strangers instead of her husband!”
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Ezekiel 18:6
“and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor’s wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,”
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Ezekiel 18:11
“or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,”
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Ezekiel 18:15
“who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor’s wife,”
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