Bible verses about "engagement" | Darby

⁵ When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out with the army, neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken.

⁷ And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

³ And Jehovah said to him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication which thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

¹⁴ House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers; but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

⁴ Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee; and I will give men for thee, and peoples for thy life.

⁶ so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

³ All things received being through him, and without him not one [thing] received being which has received being.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

⁶ Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol: The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, Flames of Jah.

²² Whoso hath found a wife hath found a good thing, and hath obtained favour from Jehovah.

¹⁰ But to the married I enjoin, not *I*, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;

¹² This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

⁸ and the two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two but one flesh.

¹ If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing. ⁴ Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up, ⁵ does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil, ⁶ does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth, ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away. ⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part: ¹⁰ but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child. ¹² For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known. ¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these [is] love.

³ Shall two walk together except they be agreed?

⁹ What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

¹⁹ And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; and I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies; ²⁰ and I will betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know Jehovah.

¹⁴ And to all these [add] love, which is the bond of perfectness.

⁹ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.