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Marriage Scriptures

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." - Genesis 2:24 NKJV 

 

"Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine In the very heart of your house, Your children like olive plants All around your table." - Psalm 128:3 NKJV 

 

"Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth. As a loving deer and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with her love." - Proverbs 5:18-19 NKJV 

 

"He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor from the LORD." - Proverbs 18:22 NKJV 

 

"Who can find a virtuousShe does him good and not evil All the days of her life." - Proverbs 31:10-12 NKJV 

 

"Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband."

- 1 Corinthians 7:2-3 NKJV 

 

"but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion."

- 1 Corinthians 7:9 NKJV 

 

"Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband. But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife." - 1 Corinthians 7:10-11 NKJV 

 

"Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?" - 2 Corinthians 6:14-15 NKJV 

 

"And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.""

- 2 Corinthians 6:16 NKJV 

 

"Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her," - Ephesians 5:23-25 NKJV 

 

"So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself."

- Ephesians 5:28 NKJV 

 

"Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them." - Colossians 3:18-19 NKJV 

 

"Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge." - Hebrews 13:4 NKJV 

 

"Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives," - 1 Peter 3:1 NKJV 

 

"Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered." - 1 Peter 3:7 NKJV

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