602 verses about Marriage

Where no hedge is, the possession will be laid waste: And he that has no wife will mourn as he wandereth up and down.

Children and the building of a city establish a man’s name; And a blameless wife is counted above both.

A friend and a companion never meet amiss; And a wife with her husband is above both.

And of turning away your face from a kinsman; Of taking away a portion or a gift; And of gazing upon a woman that has a husband;

A daughter is a secret cause of wakefulness to a father; And the care for her puts away sleep; In her youth, lest she pass the flower of her age; And when she is married, lest she should be hated:

In her virginity, lest she should be defiled And be with child in her father’s house; And when she has a husband, lest she should transgress; And when she is married, lest she should be barren.

I will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate without inhabitant.

and he took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Helkias, a very fair woman, and one that feared the Lord.

and said before the people, Send for Susanna, the daughter of Helkias, Joakim’s wife. So they sent;

Therefore Helkias and his wife praised God for their daughter Susanna, with Joakim her husband, and all the kindred, because there was no dishonesty found in her.

Every bridegroom took up lamentation, she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness.

And he said to those who were building houses, and were betrothing wives, and were planting vineyards, and were fearful, that they should return, each man to his own house, according to the law.

But after these things they brought word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri were making a great marriage, and were bringing the bride from Nadabath with a great train, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan.

and they lifted up their eyes, and saw, and, behold, a great ado and much baggage: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends and his kindred, to meet them with timbrels, and minstrels, and many weapons.

And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the voice of their minstrels into lamentation.

now also let us establish amity one with the other, and give me now your daughter to wife: and I will make affinity with you, and will give both you and her gifts worthy of you.

and king Alexander met him, and he bestowed on him his daughter Cleopatra, and celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais with great pomp, as the manner of kings is.

for he was the high priest’s son in law.

For Antiochus, on the pretense that he would marry her, came into the place, he and his Friends that were with him, that they might take a great part of the treasures in name of a dowry.

he urged him to marry and beget children; he married, settled quietly, took part in common life.

A man leaves his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and cleaves to his wife.

And with his wife he ends his days, and remembers neither father, nor mother, nor country.

Wherefore a man loves his wife better than father or mother.

and therewithal the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, he was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again.

For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the nobles have been partakers of this iniquity.

Therefore now shall you⌃ not join your daughters to their sons, neither shall you⌃ take their daughters to your sons.

Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the heathen of the land, and now is all Israel aloft.

Let us make an oath to the Lord herein, that we will put away all our wives, which we have taken of the strangers, with their children,

So Esdras arose up and said to them, you⌃ have transgressed the law and married strange wives, thereby to increase the sins of Israel.

therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed,

So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end by the new moon of the first month.

And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer rams to make reconcilement for their error.

All these had taken strange wives, and they put them away with their children.

Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled; and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry in lieu of the marriage hymn.

The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigour, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful jollity, spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailings, and saw only the grave at hand.

She said to me, I your servant was barren, and had no child, though I had a husband thirty years.

So when he grew up, and I came to take him a wife, I made him a feast day.

And it so came to pass, that when my son was entered into his wedding chamber, he fell down, and died.

Go your way then into the city to your husband.

those who marry, as those who shall get no children; and those who marry not, as the widowed.

And it prevails over marriage love, condemning it when transgressing law.

Alas, of my children, some of you unmarried, and some who have married to no profit, I shall not see your children, nor be felicitated as a grandmother.

No destroyer of the desert, or ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful snake, make plunder of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime.

Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.

Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ Exodus 20:14

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ Deuteronomy 24:1

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.

For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

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 made them male and female, Genesis 1:27

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’ Genesis 2:24

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

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

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.

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.”

His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

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

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

Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!”’

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

Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother.

In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh.

After them all, the woman died.

In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.”

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

For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,

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

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.

Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.

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.

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

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

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

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

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. Genesis 1:27

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

and the two will become one flesh, Genesis 2:24 so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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

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

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

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

“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.’

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

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

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

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

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

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

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

to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him as wife, being pregnant.

He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’

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

They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

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.

There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.