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Bible Verses About Marriage
Marriage is rarely what it looks like in the photos. The same relationship holds seasons of leaning on each other and seasons of each being tired, saying less and less. Some are about to step into it, some are trying to repair it, and some just want to be understood.
Here are nine passages from the Bible about marriage. They don’t judge your relationship, and they don’t hand you a set of rules for how to do it. They lay the subject out, one verse at a time, and let you read slowly.
What the Bible Says About Marriage
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD.
Proverbs 18:22
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Hebrews 13:4
The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Genesis 2:18
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
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 the LORD. Many 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.
Song of Songs 8:6-7
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 5:25
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:33
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8