Marriage

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Deuteronomy 24:1 OT

  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 certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his…

• Matthew 19:7 NT

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

• Matthew 19:8 NT

  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.

• Leviticus 21:7 OT

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

• Leviticus 21:14 OT

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

• Ruth 4:1 OT

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

• Ruth 4:10 OT

  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…

• Ruth 4:11 OT

  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…

• Genesis 24:4 OT

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

• 1 Samuel 25:39 OT

  When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David…

• 1 Samuel 25:40 OT

  When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.”

• Genesis 29:26 OT

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

• Genesis 29:18 OT

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

• Genesis 34:12 OT

  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.”

• 1 Samuel 18:27 OT

  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…

• 1 Samuel 18:28 OT

  Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.

• Hosea 3:2 OT

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

• Jeremiah 33:11 OT

  the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring…

• John 3:29 NT

  He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

• Genesis 29:22 OT

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

• Judges 14:10 OT

  His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.

• Matthew 22:2 NT

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

• Matthew 22:3 NT

  and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.

• John 2:1-10 NT

  The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding. When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.” Jesus said to her, “Woman,…