Bible Verses About Getting Married
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for getting married, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,513 votes, led by Hebrews 13:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Getting Married
Hebrews 13:4179 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40176 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Genesis 2:18113 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.
Ephesians 5:22-3384 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Luke 16:1878 votes
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Matthew 19:1-1270 votes
And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan;
2 Corinthians 6:1469 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
1 Peter 3:163 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;
Matthew 7:761 votes
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
1 Peter 3:1-2251 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;
1 Corinthians 7:2748 votes
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
1 Corinthians 6:18-2043 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Matthew 5:3240 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Luke 18:29-3036 votes
And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake,
Matthew 6:25-3431 votes
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Genesis 2:2427 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matthew 19:926 votes
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Matthew 19:10-1226 votes
His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
Matthew 19:4-624 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,
Mark 10:924 votes
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Romans 1:26-2724 votes
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
1 Corinthians 7:1124 votes
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Leviticus 20:1323 votes
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Proverbs 18:2222 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
1 Timothy 6:1021 votes
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
What does the Bible say about getting married?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of getting married. Across 1,513 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 7:1-40, Genesis 2:18, Ephesians 5:22-33. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.