Bible verses about "engagement" | Moffatt

⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has joined, then, man must not separate."

³ through him all existence came into being, no existence came into being apart from him.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;

¹² This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you.

¹⁰ For married people these are my instructions (and they are the Lord's, not mine). A wife is not to separate from her husband —

⁸ and the pair shall be one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

¹ Thus, I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have no love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal; ² I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing; ³ I may distribute all I possess in charity, I may give up my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I make nothing of it. ⁴ Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs, ⁵ is never rude, never selfish, never irritated, never resentful; ⁶ love is never glad when others go wrong, love is gladdened by goodness, ⁷ always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient. ⁸ Love never disappears. As for prophesying, it will be superseded; as for 'tongues,' they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded. ⁹ For we only know bit by bit, and we only prophesy bit by bit; ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will be superseded. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I argued like a child; now that I am a man, I am done with childish ways. ¹² At present we only see the baffling reflections in a mirror, but then it will be face to face; at present I am learning bit by bit, but then I shall understand, as all along I have myself been understood. ¹³ Thus 'faith and hope and love last on, these three,' but the greatest of all is love.

⁹ What God has joined, then, man must not separate."

¹⁴ And above all you must be loving, for love is the link of the perfect life.