Bible Verses about โyour spouseโ
The Bible contains 29 verses about your spouse across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โLove is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,โ
โdoesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;โ
โbears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.โ
โdoesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;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
โYet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.โ
โHusbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;โ
โ(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.โ
โBut to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husbandโ
โFor the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.โ
โThe woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.โ
โBut to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.โ
โFor how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?โ
โWhoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.โ
โFor I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.โ
โ"You shall not commit adultery.โ
โWhat therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."โ
โIf a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."โ
โand the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.โ
โif anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.โ
โFor this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,โ
โBut from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.โ
โHe said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.โ
โPharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"โ
โIn the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.โ
โHe answered, "What did Moses command you?"โ
โThey said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."โ
โBut Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.โ
โand that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,โ
