Bible Verses about “christian marriage”
The Bible contains 40 verses about christian marriage across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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;”
“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”
“Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?”
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”
“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
“You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.”
“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”
“Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”
“For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;”
“Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."”
“"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."”
“For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.”
“that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,”
“that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
“But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.”
“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."”
“because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.”
“This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.”
“Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.”
“Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.”
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.”
“And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.”
“For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up.”
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.”
“If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
“Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?”
“What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."”
“If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."”
“and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.”
“Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”
“He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.”
“House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.”
“Let all that you do be done in love.”
“In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.”
“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.”