Bible Verses for Marriage
World English Bible
Marriage is described in the Bible as a covenant — a sacred, lifelong commitment that reflects the relationship between Christ and the Church. From the very beginning in Genesis 2, God designed marriage to be a source of companionship, love, and mutual support.
These Bible verses for marriage speak to couples at every stage: newlyweds building a foundation, those in difficult seasons, and those seeking to renew their commitment. They offer guidance on love, communication, faithfulness, and the kind of sacrificial love that holds marriages together.
“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;”
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
“Yet 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.”
“But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.”
“Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;”
“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”
“For 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.”
“The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.”
“Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?”
“But 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.”
“But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.”
“A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.”
“Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”
“but 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.”
“For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?”
“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
“But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.”
“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.”
“Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.”
“Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.”
“But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;”
“There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world--how she may please her husband.”
“The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.”
“but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.”