Bible Verses About Marriage And Family

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

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

22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

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

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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.

4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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

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

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

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.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.