What Does the Bible Say About Matrimony?

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 62 helpful votes

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 41 helpful votes

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

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 36 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 7:10-11 ESV / 30 helpful votes

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes

So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Luke 16:18 ESV / 19 helpful votes

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Mark 10:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.

Genesis 9:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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.

John 3:29 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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.

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Matthew 19:8-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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.”

Matthew 19:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?”

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 6 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.

Jeremiah 3:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Return, O faithless children, declares the Lord; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Deuteronomy 17:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.

Jude 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”

Romans 1:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

John 10:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I and the Father are one.”

John 2:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

Mark 4:16-28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.” ...

Matthew 22:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 5 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.”

1 Corinthians 7:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 7:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.

Acts 13:1-52 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off. So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus. When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them. ...

Matthew 19:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But he said to them, “Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.

Matthew 5:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

Jeremiah 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Genesis 30:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

45 Bible Verses about Matrimony

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 62 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 16:18 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 10:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 9:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:29 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:8-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 3:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 17:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jude 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 10:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 2:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 4:16-28 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 22:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 7:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 13:1-52 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 30:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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