25 Bible Verses About Marriage

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Bible Verses About Marriage – English Standard Version (ESV).

Genesis 2:18

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him” (Ge 2:18).

Genesis 2:21-23

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man” (Ge 21:23).

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh (Ge 2:24).

Exodus 20:14

You shall not commit adultery (Ex 20:14).

Proverbs 5:15

Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well (Pr 5:15).

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Proverbs 5:18

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth (Pr 5:18).

Proverbs 18:22

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord (18:22).

Proverbs 31:10

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels (Pr 31:10).

Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease (Jr 29:6).

Malachi 2:15

Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth (Mal 2:15).

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Mark 10:9

What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate (Mk 10:9).

Mark 10:11

And he said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her (Mk 10:11).

Romans 7:2

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage (Ro 7:2).

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband (1 Co 7:2).

1 Corinthians 7:10-11

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife (1 Co 7:10-11).

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1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord (1 Co 7:2).

Ephesians 5:22

Las casadas estén sujetas a sus propios maridos, como al Señor (Eph 5:22).

Ephesians 5:24

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands (Eph 5:24).

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her (Eph 5:25).

Ephesians 5:28-29

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church (Eph 5:28-29).

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Ephesians 5:33

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband (Eph 5:33).

Colossians 3:18

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord (Col 3:18).

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them (Col 3:19).

1 Timothy 3:2

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach (1 Ti 3:2).

1 Peter 3:7

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered (1 Pe 3:7).

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