Marriage

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Proverbs 21:19 OT

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

• Jeremiah 29:6 OT

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

• Hosea 2:19 OT

  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 OT

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

• Malachi 2:13-16 OT

  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. Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness…

• Matthew 5:31 NT

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

• Matthew 5:32 NT

  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.

• Mark 6:17 NT

  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 NT

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

• Mark 10:2-12 NT

  Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.” But Jesus…

• Matthew 19:2-9 NT

  Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning…

• Luke 16:18 NT

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

• Romans 7:1-3 NT

  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? For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she…

• 1 Corinthians 6:16 NT

  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 7:1-40 NT

  Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband give his wife…

• 1 Corinthians 9:5 NT

  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 NT

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

• 1 Corinthians 11:12 NT

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

• 1 Timothy 3:2 NT

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

• 1 Timothy 3:12 NT

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

• 1 Timothy 4:1 NT

  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 NT

  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 NT

  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 NT

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