Bible Verses about โwanting to get marriedโ
The Bible contains 37 verses about wanting to get married across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBut seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.โ
โLet marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.โ
โBut, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.โ
โLet your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;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
โBut I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.โ
โbut in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.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
โYou 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.โ
โEven so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.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
โYahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."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
โIn the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;โ
โWho can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.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
โFor this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:โ
โThe heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.โ
โseeing your pure behavior in fear.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
โas Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.โ
โHouse and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.โ
โSet 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.โ
โI desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.โ
โMany waters can't quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friendsโ
