What Does the Bible Say About Marriage?

Genesis 2:24

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”

Ephesians 5:25

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...”

1 Corinthians 7:3-4

“The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband... For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.”

Proverbs 18:22

“He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.”

Hebrews 13:4

“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”

Matthew 19:6

“So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Colossians 3:14

“And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”