Scriptures on Marriage
- Genesis 2:24 – “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
- Proverbs 18:22 – “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.”
- Ephesians 5:25 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”
- Colossians 3:19 – “Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:2-3 – “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.”
- 1 Peter 3:7 – “Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.”
- Proverbs 31:10-11 – “An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:14 – “For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.”
- Ephesians 5:33 – “However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
- Proverbs 12:4 – “An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.”
- Proverbs 31:28 – “Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.”
- Genesis 2:18 – “Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
- Proverbs 19:14 – “House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.”
- Proverbs 21:9 – “It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 – “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.”
- Proverbs 31:26 – “She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.”
- Proverbs 31:30 – “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:1-2 – “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.”
- Proverbs 5:18 – “Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.”
- Ephesians 5:21-24 – “Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23-For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24-But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
