Bible Verses about “man and wife”
The Bible contains 24 verses about man and wife across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
“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”
“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
“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.”
“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”
“Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”
“For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;”
“Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."”
“"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."”
“For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.”
“that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,”
“that 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.”
“But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.”
“But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.”
“because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.”
“Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.”
“This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.”
“So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."”
“The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.”
“She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.”
“Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.”