Bible Verses about “choosing a mate”
Found 50 verses (ordered by relevance) about “choosing a mate” in the WEB version of the Bible
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.”
“In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
“Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.”
“Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.”
“But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.”
“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”
“(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.”
“But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband”
“For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.”
“The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.”
“Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?”
“And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.”
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”
“But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.”
“But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.”
“A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.”
“Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”
“For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?”
“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
“But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.”
“You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.”
“Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.”
“Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.”
“But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;”
“There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world--how she may please her husband.”
“The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.”
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”
“but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.”
“This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.”
“Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.”
“But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.”
“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“"Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'”
“Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.”
“Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.”
“Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.”
“So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.”
“But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.”
“But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.”
“But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.”
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”
“You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.”
“Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.”
“Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.”
“For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.”