MARRIAGE

Passages on this topic · 277

• Genesis 2:23

  The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

• Genesis 2:24

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

• Genesis 11:29

  Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.

• Genesis 12:13

  Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

• Genesis 20:3

  But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man’s wife.”

• Genesis 20:9

  Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”

• Genesis 20:10

  Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”

• Genesis 20:11

  Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

• Genesis 20:12

  Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

• Genesis 20:13

  When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

• Genesis 20:14

  Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

• Genesis 20:15

  Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”

• Genesis 20:16

  To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

• Genesis 21:21

  He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 24:3

  I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

• Genesis 24:4

  But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

• Genesis 24:53

  The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.

• Genesis 24:67

  Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

• Genesis 28:2

  Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

• Genesis 29:15

  Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

• Genesis 29:16

  Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

• Genesis 29:18

  Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

• Genesis 29:19

  Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

• Genesis 29:20

  Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

• Genesis 29:21

  Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

• Genesis 29:22

  Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

• Genesis 29:23

  In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

• Genesis 29:24

  Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

• Genesis 29:26

  Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

• Genesis 29:27

  Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

• Genesis 29:29

  Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, to be her servant.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 34:12

  Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

• Genesis 38:8

  Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”

• Genesis 38:11

  Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up”; for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

• Exodus 22:16

  “If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

• Exodus 22:17

  If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

• Exodus 34:16

  and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

• Leviticus 18:6

  “‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 18:7

  “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

• Leviticus 18:8

  “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.

• Leviticus 18:9

  “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.

• Leviticus 18:10

  “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.

• Leviticus 18:11

  “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.

• Leviticus 18:12

  “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister: she is your father’s near kinswoman.

• Leviticus 18:13

  “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister: for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.

• Leviticus 18:14

  “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, you shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt.

• Leviticus 18:15

  “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

• Leviticus 18:16

  “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.

• Leviticus 18:17

  “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

• Leviticus 18:18

  “‘You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

• Leviticus 20:14

  “‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.

• Leviticus 20:17

  “‘If a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity.

• Leviticus 20:19

  “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister; for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity.

• Leviticus 20:20

  If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.

• Leviticus 20:21

  “‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.

• Leviticus 21:1

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people;

• Leviticus 21:7

  “‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. They shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

• Leviticus 21:13

  “‘He shall take a wife in her virginity.

• Leviticus 21:14

  A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.

• Leviticus 21:15

  He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’”

• Numbers 36:8

  Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.

• Deuteronomy 7:3

  neither shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

• Deuteronomy 7:4

  For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

• Deuteronomy 13:6

  If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

• Deuteronomy 13:7

  of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;

• Deuteronomy 13:8

  you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;

• Deuteronomy 13:9

  but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

• Deuteronomy 13:10

  You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

• Deuteronomy 21:10

  When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

• Deuteronomy 21:11

  and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and desire to take her as your wife;

• Deuteronomy 21:12

  then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.

• Deuteronomy 21:13

  She shall take the clothing of her captivity off of herself, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

• Deuteronomy 21:14

  It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

• Deuteronomy 22:29

  then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.

• Deuteronomy 24:1

  When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

• Deuteronomy 24:2

  When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

• Deuteronomy 24:3

  If the latter husband hates her, and write her a bill of divorce, and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

• Deuteronomy 24:4

  her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

• Deuteronomy 24:5

  When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

• Deuteronomy 25:5

  If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

• Deuteronomy 25:6

  It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 25:7

  If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

• Deuteronomy 25:8

  Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her”;

• Deuteronomy 25:9

  then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”

• Deuteronomy 25:10

  His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his shoe removed.”

• Judges 1:12

  Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”

• Judges 11:38

  He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

• Judges 14:2

  He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”

• Judges 14:12

  Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

• Judges 21:21

  and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

• Judges 21:22

  It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.’”

• Judges 21:23

  The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.

• Ruth 4:1

  Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. He said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He turned aside, and sat down.

• Ruth 4:2

  He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

• Ruth 4:3

  He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.

• Ruth 4:4

  I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.” He said, “I will redeem it.”

• Ruth 4:5

  Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”

• Ruth 4:6

  The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”

• Ruth 4:7

  Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of legalizing transactions in Israel.

• Ruth 4:8

  So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his shoe.

• Ruth 4:9

  Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.

• Ruth 4:10

  Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

• Ruth 4:11

  All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

• 1 Samuel 17:25

  The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 18:17

  Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

• 1 Samuel 18:21

  Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

• 1 Samuel 18:25

  Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

• 1 Samuel 18:27

  David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.

• 2 Samuel 3:14

  David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

• 1 Chronicles 23:22

  Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them as wives.

• Ezra 9:1

  Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

• Ezra 9:2

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

• Ezra 9:12

  Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

• Nehemiah 10:30

  and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

• Nehemiah 13:26

  Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

• Nehemiah 13:27

  Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”

• Esther 2:2

  Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.

• Esther 2:3

  Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;

• Esther 2:4

  and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.

• Esther 2:8

  So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

• Esther 2:9

  The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.

• Esther 2:10

  Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

• Esther 2:11

  Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.

• Esther 2:12

  Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women).

• Esther 2:13

  The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house.

• Esther 2:14

  In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.

• Esther 2:18

  Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.

• Psalms 45:12

  The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.

• Proverbs 18:22

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

• Proverbs 21:9

  It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

• Proverbs 21:19

  It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

• Isaiah 4:1

  Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

• Isaiah 8:1

  Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;

• Isaiah 8:2

  and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”

• Isaiah 8:3

  I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’

• Isaiah 49:18

  Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

• Isaiah 54:5

  For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

• Isaiah 61:10

  I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

• Isaiah 62:4

  You will not be called Forsaken any more; nor will your land be called Desolate any more: but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.

• Isaiah 62:5

  For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

• Jeremiah 2:32

  “Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

• Jeremiah 3:14

  “Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

• Jeremiah 16:9

  For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

• Jeremiah 29:6

  Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

• Jeremiah 31:32

  not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 16:8

  “‘“Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.

• Hosea 1:2

  When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”

• Hosea 2:19

  I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

• Hosea 2:20

  I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

• Hosea 3:2

  So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

• Hosea 12:12

  Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

• Malachi 2:11

  Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

• Malachi 2:13

  This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

• Malachi 2:14

  Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

• Malachi 2:15

  Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

• Malachi 2:16

  For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

• Matthew 1:18

  Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

• Matthew 5:31

  “It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

• Matthew 5:32

  but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

• Matthew 19:2

  Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

• Matthew 19:3

  Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

• Matthew 19:4

  He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

• Matthew 19:5

  and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

• Matthew 19:6

  So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

• Matthew 19:7

  They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?”

• Matthew 19:8

  He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

• Matthew 19:9

  I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

• Matthew 19:29

  Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

• Matthew 22:2

  “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

• Matthew 22:11

  But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,

• Matthew 22:12

  and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

• Matthew 22:24

  saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’

• Matthew 22:29

  But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

• Matthew 22:30

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

• Matthew 25:1

  “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

• Matthew 25:2

  Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

• Matthew 25:3

  Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,

• Matthew 25:4

  but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

• Matthew 25:5

  Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

• Matthew 25:6

  But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

• Matthew 25:7

  Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

• Matthew 25:8

  The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

• Matthew 25:9

  But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’

• Matthew 25:10

  While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

• Mark 6:17

  For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.

• Mark 6:18

  For John said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

• Mark 10:2

  Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

• Mark 10:3

  He answered, “What did Moses command you?”

• Mark 10:4

  They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”

• Mark 10:5

  But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

• Mark 10:6

  But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

• Mark 10:7

  For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

• Mark 10:8

  and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

• Mark 10:9

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

• Mark 10:10

  In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.

• Mark 10:11

  He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

• Mark 10:12

  If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

• Mark 12:19

  “Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’

• Mark 12:20

  There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

• Mark 12:21

  The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;

• Mark 12:22

  and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.

• Mark 12:23

  In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife.”

• Mark 12:24

  Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

• Mark 12:25

  For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

• Luke 1:27

  to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary.

• Luke 14:26

  “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

• Luke 16:18

  Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

• Luke 20:28

  They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

• John 2:1

  The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.

• John 2:2

  Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.

• John 2:3

  When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”

• John 2:4

  Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”

• John 2:5

  His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”

• Romans 7:1

  Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

• Romans 7:2

  For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

• Romans 7:3

  So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

• 1 Corinthians 6:16

  Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

• 1 Corinthians 7:1

  Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

• 1 Corinthians 7:2

  But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:3

  Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:4

  The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

• 1 Corinthians 7:5

  Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

• 1 Corinthians 7:6

  But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

• 1 Corinthians 7:7

  Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

• 1 Corinthians 7:8

  But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

• 1 Corinthians 7:9

  But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

• 1 Corinthians 7:10

  But to the married I command — not I, but the Lord — that the wife not leave her husband

• 1 Corinthians 7:11

  (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

• 1 Corinthians 7:12

  But to the rest I — not the Lord — say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

• 1 Corinthians 7:13

  The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:14

  For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

• 1 Corinthians 7:15

  Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

• 1 Corinthians 7:16

  For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

• 1 Corinthians 7:17

  Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

• 1 Corinthians 7:18

  Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

• 1 Corinthians 7:19

  Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

• 1 Corinthians 7:20

  Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

• 1 Corinthians 7:21

  Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

• 1 Corinthians 7:22

  For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

• 1 Corinthians 7:23

  You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

• 1 Corinthians 7:24

  Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

• 1 Corinthians 7:25

  Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

• 1 Corinthians 7:26

  I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

• 1 Corinthians 7:27

  Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

• 1 Corinthians 7:28

  But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

• 1 Corinthians 7:29

  But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

• 1 Corinthians 7:30

  and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;

• 1 Corinthians 7:31

  and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

• 1 Corinthians 7:32

  But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

• 1 Corinthians 7:33

  but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

• 1 Corinthians 7:34

  There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world — how she may please her husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:35

  This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

• 1 Corinthians 7:36

  But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

• 1 Corinthians 7:37

  But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well.

• 1 Corinthians 7:38

  So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

• 1 Corinthians 7:39

  A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

• 1 Corinthians 7:40

  But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

• 1 Corinthians 9:5

  Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

• 1 Corinthians 11:11

  Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

• 1 Corinthians 11:12

  For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

• 2 Corinthians 6:14

  Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

• Ephesians 5:30

  because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

• Ephesians 5:31

  “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

• Ephesians 5:32

  This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

• 1 Timothy 3:2

  The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

• 1 Timothy 3:12

  Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

• 1 Timothy 4:1

  But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

• 1 Timothy 4:3

  forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

• 1 Timothy 5:14

  I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

• Hebrews 13:4

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

• Revelation 19:7

  Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

• Revelation 19:8

  It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

• Revelation 19:9

  He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.’” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”