Bible Verses About Choosing a Mate
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for choosing a mate, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,999 votes, led by Philippians 4:6-9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Choosing a Mate
Philippians 4:6-9252 votes
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
2 Corinthians 6:14223 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Proverbs 31:10-31185 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs 31:30178 votes
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Proverbs 21:19172 votes
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40149 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Proverbs 13:20112 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 18:2299 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Romans 8:791 votes
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Amos 3:383 votes
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Proverbs 19:2082 votes
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
1 Peter 3:782 votes
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.
Ephesians 5:3381 votes
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Ephesians 5:2579 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Proverbs 19:1478 votes
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Mark 10:978 votes
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Colossians 3:1972 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Matthew 6:29-3469 votes
And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
1 Corinthians 13:1-1365 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Proverbs 15:2259 votes
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Genesis 2:2451 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:2848 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Proverbs 19:2745 votes
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
Ephesians 5:2245 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Psalms 127:140 votes
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
What does the Bible say about choosing a mate?
Readers most often cite Philippians 4:6-9 on the subject of choosing a mate. Across 2,999 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Corinthians 6:14, Proverbs 31:10-31, Proverbs 31:30. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.