What Does the Bible Say About Mates?

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Matthew 19:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Genesis 38:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.” But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 1 helpful vote

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

20 Bible Verses about Mates

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 38:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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20 Bible Verses about Mates

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Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 2:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 38:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 1 helpful vote