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Bible Verses About Marriage

Bible verses on marriage — love that lasts, husband and wife, weddings.

5 verses · curated by hand

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More verses about marriage in Scripture

384 passages mentioning “wife” across WEB & KJV — beyond the curated set above.

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  1. Luke 2:5

    “to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him as wife, being pregnant.”

  2. Luke 3:19

    “but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,”

  3. Luke 4:38

    “He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.”

  4. Luke 8:3

    “and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions.”

  5. Luke 14:20

    ““Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’”

  6. Luke 14:26

    ““If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.”

  7. Luke 16:18

    “Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.”

  8. Luke 17:32

    “Remember Lot’s wife!”

  9. Luke 18:29

    “He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake,”

  10. Luke 20:28

    “They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.”

  11. Luke 20:29

    “There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.”

  12. Luke 20:30

    “The second took her as wife, and he died childless.”

  13. Luke 20:33

    “Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.””

  14. John 19:25

    “But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.”

  15. Acts 5:1

    “But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,”

  16. Acts 5:2

    “and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.”

  17. Acts 5:7

    “About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.”

  18. Acts 18:2

    “He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,”

  19. Acts 24:24

    “But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.”

  20. 1 Corinthians 5:1

    “It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.”

Frequently asked

Questions about marriage in the Bible

What does the Bible say about marriage?
Ephesians 5:21-33 frames marriage as mutual submission, with Christ's love for the church as the pattern. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 describes the kind of love that marriages need daily. Genesis 2:24 establishes the "one flesh" covenant.
Which Bible verse is best for weddings?
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 is the most-read wedding passage worldwide. Other favourites: Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (a cord of three strands), Colossians 3:14 (love binds everything together).
What is biblical love in marriage?
Biblical marital love is a sustained, deliberate love — not romantic feeling alone. 1 Corinthians 13 lists its working parts: patient, kind, not self-seeking, not easily angered, bearing all things.