Bible Verses About Marriage
NT Scripture Quotes
Jesus replied, "Have you not read that in the beginning the Creator made them male and female, and he said: Man has now to leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one body? So they are no longer two but one body; let no one separate what God has joined." (Matthew19:4-6)
Some are born incapable of marriage. Some have been made that way by others. But there are some who have given up the possibility of marriage for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who can accept it, accept it. (Matthew19:12)
and he told them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against his wife, and the woman who divorces her husband and marries another also commits adultery." (Mark10:11-12)
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries a woman divorced by her husband also commits adultery. (Luke16:18)
And Jesus replied, "Taking husband or wife is proper to people of this world, but for those who are considered worthy of the world to come and of resurrection from the dead, there is no more marriage. (Luke20:34-35)
I command married couples - not I but the Lord - that the wife should not separate from her husband. If she separates from him, let her not marry again, or let her make peace with her husband. Similarly the husband should not divorce his wife. (1Corinthians7:10-11)
Let all kinds of submission to one another become obedience to Christ. So wives to their husbands: as to the Lord. The husband is the head of his wife, as Christ is the head of the Church, his body, of whom he is also the Savior. And as the Church submits to Christ, so let a wife submit in everything to her husband. As for you, husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her. (Ephesians5:21-25)
In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. (Ephesians5:28)
Scripture says: Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother to be united with his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. (Ephesians5:31)
As for you, let each one love his wife as himself, and let the wife respect her husband. (Ephesians5:33)
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as you should do in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not get angry with them. (Colossians3:18-19)
The older women in like manner must behave as befits holy women, not given to gossiping or drinking wine, but as good counselors, able to teach younger women to love their husbands and children, to be judicious and pure, to take care of their households, to be kind and submissive to their husbands, lest our faith be attacked. (Titus2:3-5)
Marriage must be respected by all and husband and wife faithful to each other. God will punish the immoral and the adulterous. (Hebrews13:4)
Husbands, in your turn, be sensible in your life together. Be considerate, realizing that the woman is of a more frail disposition and that you both share in the gift of life. If you do this, God will readily answer your prayers. (1Peter3:7)
