Bible Verses About Marriage

Ezekiel 22:11

“One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.”

Ezekiel 24:18

“So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.”

Ezekiel 33:26

“You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife: and shall you possess the land?”

Hosea 1:2

“When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.””

Hosea 2:2

“Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;”

Hosea 12:12

“Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.”

Amos 7:17

“Therefore Yahweh says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’””

Malachi 2:14

“Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.”

Malachi 2:15

“Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.”

Matthew 1:6

“Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.”

Matthew 1:20

“But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.”

Matthew 1:24

“Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;”

Matthew 5:31

““It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’”

Matthew 5:32

“but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.”

Matthew 8:14

“When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.”

Matthew 14:3

“For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.”

Matthew 18:25

“But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.”

Matthew 19:3

“Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?””

Matthew 19:5

“and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’”

Matthew 19:9

“I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.””