Bible Verses about โearly marriageโ
The Bible contains 32 verses about early marriage across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBut, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.โ
โTherefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.โ
โHusbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;โ
โDon't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?โ
โNevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.โ
โBut if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.โ
โBut 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.โ
โSo then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.โ
โEven so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.โ
โBut he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.โ
โWives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.โ
โFor no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;โ
โ"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."โ
โFor the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.โ
โthat he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,โ
โthat he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.โ
โBut as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.โ
โbecause we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.โ
โThis mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.โ
โSo that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."โ
โand said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'โ
โWhoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.โ
โHe answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,โ
โRuth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;โ
โwhere you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."โ
โHouse and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.โ
โI desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.โ
โJacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.โ
โJacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."โ
โWhen a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.โ
โI adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friendsโ
โLaban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."โ
