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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 Corinthians 7:2
“But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.”
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1 Corinthians 7:3
“Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.”
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1 Corinthians 7:4
“The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.”
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1 Corinthians 7:10
“But to the married I command — not I, but the Lord — that the wife not leave her husband”
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1 Corinthians 7:11
“(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.”
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1 Corinthians 7:12
“But to the rest I — not the Lord — say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.”
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1 Corinthians 7:14
“For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.”
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1 Corinthians 7:16
“For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?”
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1 Corinthians 7:27
“Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.”
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1 Corinthians 7:33
“but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.”
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1 Corinthians 7:34
“There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world — how she may please her husband.”
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1 Corinthians 7:39
“A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.”
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1 Corinthians 9:5
“Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?”
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Ephesians 5:23
“For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.”
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Ephesians 5:28
“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”
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Ephesians 5:31
““For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.””
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Ephesians 5:33
“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
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1 Timothy 3:2
“The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;”
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1 Timothy 3:12
“Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.”
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1 Timothy 5:9
“Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,”
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