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Bible Verses About Marriage

Marriage was God's idea — a covenant of love, patience, and faithfulness. These Bible verses about marriage make beautiful readings for weddings, anniversaries, and everyday devotion together.

Genesis 2:24

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Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

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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. Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

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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; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Ephesians 5:25

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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Proverbs 18:22

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Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Colossians 3:14

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Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Mark 10:9

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What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

Song of Solomon 8:6-7

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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 Yahweh. 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.

Ephesians 4:2-3

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with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

1 Peter 4:8

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And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Proverbs 31:10

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Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Hebrews 13:4

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

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