Bible Verses About Early Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for early marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,085 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 7:36-38. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Early Marriage
1 Corinthians 7:36-38174 votes
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
1 Timothy 5:14139 votes
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Song of Songs 8:4107 votes
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
Matthew 19:4-6105 votes
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Genesis 29:18-20104 votes
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
Proverbs 18:22102 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Genesis 2:2495 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ruth 1:16-1789 votes
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
Ephesians 5:22-3377 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Deuteronomy 24:573 votes
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
1 Corinthians 7:965 votes
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
2 Corinthians 6:1462 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Ephesians 5:3158 votes
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:254 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Proverbs 19:1441 votes
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Exodus 22:16-1740 votes
And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
1 Peter 3:1-740 votes
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Deuteronomy 22:13-2137 votes
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
Genesis 24:6735 votes
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Luke 1:26-3532 votes
And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
Genesis 2:18-2429 votes
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Genesis 2:22-2429 votes
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis 24:1-6728 votes
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
Proverbs 5:1826 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
1 Corinthians 7:32-3425 votes
But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
What does the Bible say about early marriage?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 7:36-38 on the subject of early marriage. Across 2,085 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 5:14, Song of Songs 8:4, Matthew 19:4-6. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.