What the Bible Says About Marriage
Marriage is a covenant — God's design from the beginning.
From the first marriage in Eden to Paul's instructions to husbands and wives, Scripture treats marriage as sacred — a covenant that mirrors something deeper.
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✨ Ask the Bible →Marriage in Scripture (KJV)
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Leave, cleave, become one flesh. The original blueprint — referenced by Jesus and Paul.
Read in context →Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church. The standard is sacrificial.
Read in context →Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Let every one of you so love his wife — and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Read in context →Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity (love) suffereth long. The portrait of how to love your spouse on the hard days.
Read in context →Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Two are better than one — a threefold cord (you, your spouse, God) is not quickly broken.
Read in context →Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Marriage is honourable in all. God doesn't look down on it — He honors it.
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