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Bible Verses about โ€œearly 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.

1 Corinthians 7:2
847 votes

โ€œBut, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.โ€

Genesis 2:24
810 votes

โ€œTherefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.โ€

Ephesians 5:25
790 votes

โ€œHusbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;โ€

2 Corinthians 6:14
743 votes

โ€œDon't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?โ€

Ephesians 5:33
646 votes

โ€œNevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.โ€

1 Corinthians 7:9
641 votes

โ€œBut if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.โ€

1 Corinthians 7:36
589 votes

โ€œBut 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€

1 Corinthians 7:38
547 votes

โ€œSo then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.โ€

Ephesians 5:28
547 votes

โ€œEven so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.โ€

1 Corinthians 7:37
545 votes

โ€œBut 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€

Ephesians 5:22
527 votes

โ€œWives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.โ€

Ephesians 5:29
511 votes

โ€œFor no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;โ€

Ephesians 5:31
469 votes

โ€œ"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€

Ephesians 5:23
454 votes

โ€œFor 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€

Ephesians 5:26
450 votes

โ€œthat he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,โ€

Ephesians 5:27
447 votes

โ€œthat 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€

Ephesians 5:24
426 votes

โ€œBut as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.โ€

Ephesians 5:30
380 votes

โ€œbecause we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.โ€

Ephesians 5:32
374 votes

โ€œThis mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.โ€

Matthew 19:6
357 votes

โ€œSo that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."โ€

Matthew 19:5
309 votes

โ€œand 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€

Proverbs 18:22
268 votes

โ€œWhoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.โ€

Matthew 19:4
265 votes

โ€œHe answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,โ€

Ruth 1:16
128 votes

โ€œRuth 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€

Ruth 1:17
119 votes

โ€œwhere 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€

Proverbs 19:14
72 votes

โ€œHouse and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.โ€

1 Timothy 5:14
57 votes

โ€œI desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.โ€

Genesis 29:20
42 votes

โ€œJacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.โ€

Genesis 29:18
36 votes

โ€œJacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."โ€

Deuteronomy 24:5
29 votes

โ€œWhen 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€

Song of Solomon 8:4
27 votes

โ€œI adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friendsโ€

Genesis 29:19
24 votes

โ€œLaban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."โ€

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