Bible on Marriage

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her.

And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:

And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.

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

But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

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

And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal’s wife the Carmelite.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children. The Book of Nehemiah

And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.