Bible Verses about “sacrament of marriage”
The Bible contains 50 verses about sacrament of 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.”
“Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.”
“But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.”
“Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;”
“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;”
“(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.”
“But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband”
“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.”
“The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.”
“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.”
“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.”
“But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.”
“Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”
“but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.”
“For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?”
“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
“But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.”
“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.”
“Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.”
“Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.”
“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.”
“Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.”
“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”
“But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.”
“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.”
“because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.”
“In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;”
“This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.”
“So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."”
“Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.”
“and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'”
“For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:”
“seeing your pure behavior in fear.”
“Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.”
“He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,”
“as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.”
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.”
“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.”