Last updated on: March 10, 2007
Marriage Verses
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Marriage Verse |
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| Lk 16:18 | “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. | Adultery |
| Mk 10:11 | And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, | Adultery |
| Mk 10:12 | and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.” | Adultery |
| Mt 5:27 | You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.’ | Adultery |
| Mt 5:28 | But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. | Adultery |
| Mt 5:32 | But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. | Adultery |
| Ro 7:3 | But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. | Adultery |
| Mal 2:14 | But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. | Covenant |
| Mal 2:15b | So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. | Covenant |
| Pr 2:17 | who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; | Covenant |
| 1Co 7:11 | (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. | Divorce |
| 1Co 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. | Divorce |
| Mal 2:16 | “For the man who hates and divorces, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.” | Divorce |
| Mk 10:5 | And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. | Divorce |
| Mt 19:8 | He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. | Divorce |
| Mt 19:9 | And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.” | Divorce |
| Mt 5:31 | “It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.' | Divorce |
| Ro 7:2 | Thus 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. | Divorce |
| 1Co 11:3 | But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. | Head |
| Ep 5:23 | For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. | Head |
| Ge 3:16b | Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you. | Head |
| 1Co 7:33-34a | But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. | Love |
| 1Co 7:34b | But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. | Love |
| 1 Pe 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. | Love |
| Col 3:19 | Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. | Love |
| Dt 24:5 | “When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken. | Love |
| Ep 5:25 | Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, | Love |
| Ep 5:28 | In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. | Love |
| Ep 5:33a | However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, | Love |
| Ge 29:32 | And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, “Because the LORD has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.” | Love |
| Mk 10:7 | 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, | Love |
| Pr 31:11 | The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. | Love |
| Tit 2:4 | and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, | Love |
| 1Co 6:16 | Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” | Oneness |
| Ep 5:31 | “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” | Oneness |
| Mal 2:15a | Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. | Oneness |
| Mk 10:8 | and they shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh. | Oneness |
| Mt 19:5 | and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh'? | Oneness |
| 1Pe 3:1-2 | Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives— [2] when they see your respectful and pure conduct. | Respect |
| 1 Pe 3:5-6a | For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their husbands, [6a] as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. | Respect |
| Col 3:18 | Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. | Respect |
| Ep 5:22 | Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. | Respect |
| Ep 5:24 | Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. | Respect |
| Ep 5:33b | and let the wife see that she respects her husband. | Respect |
| Pr 12:4 | An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. | Respect |
| Pr 31:12 | She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. | Respect |
| Tit 2:5 | to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. | Respect |
| 1Co 7:10 | To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband | Separation |
| Mk 10:9 | What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” | Separation |
| Mt 19:6 | So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” | Separation |
| 1Co 7:2 | But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. | Sexuality |
| 1Co 7:3 | The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. | Sexuality |
| 1Co 7:4 | For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. | Sexuality |
| 1Co 7:5 | Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of sel | Sexuality |
| 1Co 7:9 | But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion. | Sexuality |
| Heb 13:4 | Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. | Sexuality |
| 1Co 7:1 | Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman. | Single |
| 1Co 7:8 | To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am. | Single |
| 1Co 7:28 | But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. | Troubles |
| 1Co 7:38 | So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better. | Troubles |
| 1Co 7:12 | To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. | Unbelieving Spouse |
| 1Co 7:13 | If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. | Unbelieving Spouse |
| 1Co 7:14 | For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. | Unbelieving Spouse |
| 1Co 7:15 | For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, | Unbelieving Spouse |
| 1Co 7:16 | Wife, how do you know whether you will save your husband? Husband, how do you know whether you will save your wife? | Unbelieving Spouse |
| Pr 31:10 | An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. | Wife |