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Bible Verses about “wanting to get married”

The Bible contains 37 verses about wanting to get married across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Matthew 6:33
1107 votes

“But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.”

Hebrews 13:4
1042 votes

“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”

1 Corinthians 7:2
847 votes

“But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.”

1 Peter 3:3
834 votes

“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;”

Genesis 2:24
810 votes

“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”

Ephesians 5:25
790 votes

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”

2 Corinthians 6:14
743 votes

“Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?”

1 Corinthians 7:8
688 votes

“But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.”

1 Peter 3:4
669 votes

“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.”

Ephesians 5:33
646 votes

“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

1 Corinthians 7:9
641 votes

“But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.”

1 Peter 3:7
641 votes

“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.”

Ephesians 5:28
547 votes

“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”

Ephesians 5:22
527 votes

“Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”

Ephesians 5:29
511 votes

“For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;”

Genesis 2:18
470 votes

“Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."”

Ephesians 5:31
469 votes

“"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."”

Ephesians 5:23
454 votes

“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.”

Ephesians 5:26
450 votes

“that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,”

Ephesians 5:27
447 votes

“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.”

Ephesians 5:24
426 votes

“But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.”

Ephesians 5:30
380 votes

“because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.”

1 Peter 3:1
376 votes

“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;”

Proverbs 31:10
374 votes

“Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.”

Ephesians 5:32
374 votes

“This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.”

Matthew 19:6
357 votes

“So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."”

Matthew 19:5
309 votes

“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?'”

1 Peter 3:5
308 votes

“For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:”

Proverbs 31:11
286 votes

“The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.”

1 Peter 3:2
271 votes

“seeing your pure behavior in fear.”

Proverbs 18:22
268 votes

“Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.”

Matthew 19:4
265 votes

“He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,”

1 Peter 3:6
249 votes

“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.”

Proverbs 19:14
72 votes

“House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.”

Song of Solomon 8:6
68 votes

“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.”

1 Timothy 5:14
57 votes

“I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.”

Song of Solomon 8:7
39 votes

“Many waters can't quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friends”

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