Bible verses about "engagement" | MSTC

⁵ When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go a warfare neither shall be charged with any business: but shall be free at home one year and rejoice with his wife which he hath taken.

⁷ And if any man be betrothed unto a wife and have not taken her, let him go and return again unto his house, lest he die in the battle and another take her.'

³ And the LORD said unto him, "I have heard thy prayer and intercession that thou madest before me, and have hallowed this house which thou hast built, to put my name there forever and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

¹⁴ House and riches may a man have by the heritage of his elders; but a discreet woman is the gift of the LORD.

⁴ because thou wast dear in my sight, and because I set by thee, and loved thee. I will give over all men for thee, and deliver up all people for thy sake.

⁶ Wherefore now are they not twain, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder, that which God hath coupled together."

³ All things were made by it, and without it was made no thing, that was made.

⁷ Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God. And all that love are born of God, and knoweth God.

⁶ O set me as a seal upon thine heart, and as a seal upon thine arm: for love is mighty as the death, and jealousy as the hell. Her coals are of fire, and a very flame of the LORD:

²² Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and receiveth an wholesome benefit of the LORD.

¹² This is my commandment: that ye love together as I have loved you.

¹⁰ Unto the married command not I, but the Lord: that the wife separate not herself from the man.

⁸ and they twain shall be made one flesh.' So then are they now not twain, but one flesh.

¹ Though I spake with the tongues of men and angels, and yet had no love, I were even as sounding brass: or as a tinkling cymbal. ² And though I could prophesy, and understood all secrets, and all knowledge: yea, if I had all faith so that I could move mountains out of their places, and yet had no love, I were nothing. ³ And though I bestowed all my goods to feed the poor, and though I gave my body even that I burned, and yet had no love, it profiteth me nothing. ⁴ Love suffereth long, and is courteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not forwardly, swelleth not, ⁵ dealeth not dishonestly, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh not evil, ⁶ rejoiceth not in iniquity: but rejoiceth in the truth, ⁷ suffereth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth in all things. ⁸ Though that prophesying fail, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge vanish away: yet love falleth never away. ⁹ For our knowledge is unperfect, and our prophesying is unperfect: ¹⁰ but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is unperfect shall be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I imagined as a child: but as soon as I was a man I put away childishness. ¹² Now we see in a glass, even in a dark speaking: but then shall we see face to face. Now I know unperfectly: but then shall I know even as I am known. ¹³ Now abideth faith, hope, and love, even these three: but the chief of these is love.

³ May twain walk together except they be agreed among themselves?

⁹ Therefore, what God hath coupled, let not man separate."

¹⁹ Thus will I marry thee unto mine own self forevermore: yea even to myself will I marry thee, in righteousness, in equity, in loving-kindness, and mercy. ²⁰ In faith also will I marry thee, unto myself, and thou shalt know the LORD.

¹⁴ Above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness,

⁹ Therefore two are better than one, for they may well enjoy the profit of their labour.