Bible verses about "marriage" | Living_Oracles

² whither great multitudes followed him, and he healed their sick. ³ Then some Pharisees came to him, and trying him asked, Can a man lawfully, upon every pretense, divorce his wife? ⁴ He answered, Have you not read, that at the beginning, when the Creator made man, he formed a male and a female, ⁵ and said, "For this cause a man shall leave father and mother, and adhere to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh." ⁶ Wherefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. What, then, God has conjoined, let not man separate. ⁷ They replied, Why, then, did Moses command to give a writing of divorce, and dismiss her? ⁸ He answered, Moses, indeed, because of your intractable disposition, permitted you to divorce your wives, but it was not so from the beginning. ⁹ Therefore, I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for whoredom, and marries another, commits adultery: and whoever marries the woman divorced, commits adultery.

⁸ and they two shall be one flesh. They are, therefore, not longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ What then God has conjoined, let no man separate. ¹⁰ And, in the house, his disciples asked him anew concerning this matter. ¹¹ He said to them, Whosoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her; ¹² and if a woman divorce her husband, and marry another, she commits adultery.

³⁹ A wife is bound, as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she pleases; only in the Lord.

¹⁴ Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ, also, loved the congregation, and gave himself for it; ²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with a bath of water, with the word. ²⁷ That he might present it to himself glorious, a congregation not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it might be holy, and without blemish. ²⁸ So ought husbands to love their own wives, as their own bodies: he who loves his own wife, loves himself. ²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the congregation: ³⁰ because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. ³¹ For this reason shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall adhere to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh. ³² This is a great mystery; but I speak concerning Christ and the congregation. ³³ Therefore, also, let every one of you in particular, so love his own wife as himself; and let the wife reverence her husband.

⁴ Love suffers long, and is kind. Love envies not. Love does not vaunt; is not puffed up; ⁵ does not behave itself unbecomingly; does not seek its own things; is not exasperated; does not imagine evil; ⁶ does not rejoice in iniquity, but greatly rejoices in the truth: ⁷ covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

²² Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is head of the wife, even as Christ is head of the congregation; he is the saviour of the body. ²⁴ Therefore, as the congregation is subject to Christ; so, also, let the wives be to their own husbands, in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ, also, loved the congregation, and gave himself for it; ²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with a bath of water, with the word. ²⁷ That he might present it to himself glorious, a congregation not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it might be holy, and without blemish. ²⁸ So ought husbands to love their own wives, as their own bodies: he who loves his own wife, loves himself. ²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the congregation: ³⁰ because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. ³¹ For this reason shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall adhere to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh. ³² This is a great mystery; but I speak concerning Christ and the congregation. ³³ Therefore, also, let every one of you in particular, so love his own wife as himself; and let the wife reverence her husband.

⁴ Let marriage be honorable among all, and the bed unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

¹ Now, concerning the things of which you wrote me: It is good for a man not to marry a woman. ² Nevertheless, on account of uncleanness, let every man have a wife of his own, and let every woman have her own husband. ³ Let the husband fulfill his obligations to his wife: and in like manner, also, the wife to the husband. ⁴ The wife has not the command of her own person, but the husband: and in like manner, also, the husband has not the command of his own person, but the wife. ⁵ Deprive not one another, unless, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; and do you come again together, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinency. ⁶ But this which follows I speak as an advice, and not as an injunction, ⁷ that I wish all men to be as I myself am. However, each has a proper gift from God; one, indeed, after this manner, and another after that. ⁸ I say, to the unmarried men, and to the widows, it is good for them if they can remain even as I do. ⁹ Yet, if they can not live continently, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to be in pain. ¹⁰ Now, those who have married I charge, (yet not I, but the Lord;) let not a wife depart from her husband: ¹¹ but if she even depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband; and a husband must not put away his wife. ¹² But the rest I command, not the Lord; if any brother have an infidel wife, who herself is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. ¹³ And a woman who has an infidel husband, who himself is well pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away. ¹⁴ For the infidel husband is sanctified by the wife, and the infidel wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise, certainly, your children were unclean; whereas, indeed, they are holy. ¹⁵ But if the infidel depart, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not in bondage with such; but God has called us to peace. ¹⁶ For how do you know, O wife! whether you shall save your husband? And how do you know, O husband! whether you shall save your wife? ¹⁷ But as God has distributed to every one, and as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk; and so, in all the congregations, I ordain. ¹⁸ Has any circumcised one been called? Let him not be uncircumcised. Has any one been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. ²⁰ Let every one remain in the same calling in which he was called. ²¹ Were you called, being a bondman? Be not careful to be made free. Yet, if you can be made free, prefer it. ²² For a bondman, who is called by the Lord, is the Lord's freedman. In like manner, also, a freedman who is called, is Christ's bondman. ²³ You were bought with a price: become not the slaves of men. ²⁴ Brethren, in what state each one was called, in that let him remain with God. ²⁵ Now, concerning virgins, I have not a commandment of the Lord: but, I give my judgment, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful. ²⁶ I declare this, then, to be good, on account of the present distress; namely, that it is good for a man who is unmarried, to continue so. ²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. ²⁸ And yet, if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned: nevertheless, affliction in the flesh such shall have; but I spare you. ²⁹ Now, this I say, brethren, the time being short, it remains that both they who have wives, should be as not having wives; ³⁰ and they who weep, as not weeping; and they who rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they who buy, as not possessing; ³¹ and they who use this world, as not abusing it: for the form of this world passes by. ³² Besides, I would have you without anxious care. The unmarried man anxiously cares for the things of the Lord; how he shall please the Lord. ³³ But he who is married, anxiously cares for the things of the world; how he shall please his wife. ³⁴ There is the like difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried woman anxiously cares for the things of the Lord; that she may be holy, both in body and spirit: but she who is married, anxiously cares for the things of the world; how she shall please her husband. ³⁵ Now, this I say, for your own benefit; not with a view to lay a snare for you, but for that which is becoming, and best adapted to a steady, uninterrupted adherence to the Lord. ³⁶ But if any one thinks he acts improperly toward his virgin, if she be above age, unmarried, and so needs to be married; let him do what she inclines, he does not sin: let such marry. ³⁷ But he who stands firm in his heart; not having necessity, and has power concerning his own will; and has determined this in his own heart, to keep his virgin, does well. ³⁸ So, then, even he who gives her in marriage, does well; but he who gives her not in marriage, does better. ³⁹ A wife is bound, as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she pleases; only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is happier if she continue as she is. This is my opinion; and I think I have the Spirit of God.