Bible Verses About Marriage

Deuteronomy 21:11

“and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and desire to take her as your wife;”

Deuteronomy 21:13

“She shall take the clothing of her captivity off of herself, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.”

Deuteronomy 22:13

“If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,”

Deuteronomy 22:16

“The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.”

Deuteronomy 22:19

“They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.”

Deuteronomy 22:24

“then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.”

Deuteronomy 22:29

“then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.”

Deuteronomy 22:30

“A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.”

Deuteronomy 24:1

“When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.”

Deuteronomy 24:2

“When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.”

Deuteronomy 24:3

“If the latter husband hates her, and write her a bill of divorce, and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;”

Deuteronomy 24:4

“her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.”

Deuteronomy 24:5

“When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.”

Deuteronomy 25:5

“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.”

Deuteronomy 25:7

“If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.””

Deuteronomy 25:9

“then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.””

Deuteronomy 25:11

“When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and takes him by his private parts,”

Deuteronomy 27:20

“‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”

Deuteronomy 28:30

“You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.”

Deuteronomy 28:54

“The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;”