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17 Bible verses about Marriage KJV
Scripture talks about marriage as a covenant before it talks about it as a feeling. These verses cover what husbands and wives are each told to do, what Jesus said about two becoming one flesh, and what Paul meant by love that suffereth long — the passages read at weddings and the ones that matter afterward.
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Ephesians 5:25 · KJV
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Genesis 2:24 · KJV
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 · KJV
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Proverbs 18:22 · KJV
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Hebrews 13:4 · KJV
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Colossians 3:19 · KJV
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1 Peter 3:7 · KJV
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 · KJV
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Mark 10:9 · KJV
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Proverbs 31:10 · KJV
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Ephesians 5:33 · KJV
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 · KJV
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Colossians 3:18-19 · KJV
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Song of Solomon 8:6-7 · KJV
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Ephesians 5:22 · KJV
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Genesis 2:18 · KJV
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
1 Corinthians 7:3 · KJV
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
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