Bible Verses about “engagement”
The Bible contains 31 verses about engagement across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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 to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband”
“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.”
“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 now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“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.”
“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”
“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”
“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”
“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”
“So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."”
“Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.”
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.”
“"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”
“Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.”
“All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.”
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.”
“What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."”
“and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.”
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?”
“Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.”
“House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.”
“Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.”
“I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.”
“When 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.”
“I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.”
“Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.”