What Does the Bible Say About Marriage?
What the Bible teaches about marriage — God's design for marriage, love between spouses, and building a godly home.
- "That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh."
- "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her."
- "Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church..."
- "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud..."
- "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up."
- "A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies."
- "Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."
- "Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them."
- "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral."
- "Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect..."