Bible Verses About Marriage and Children
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marriage and children, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 405 votes, led by Genesis 1:28. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Marriage and Children
Genesis 1:2842 votes
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.
Hebrews 13:442 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4036 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Genesis 2:1827 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 5:2526 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Matthew 5:3225 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.
Proverbs 18:2223 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
John 15:723 votes
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Psalms 127:1-522 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.
Proverbs 10:1216 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Genesis 2:2415 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Malachi 2:1513 votes
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Romans 12:1713 votes
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
Ephesians 5:22-3313 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Mark 10:6-912 votes
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
2 Corinthians 6:1412 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Ephesians 5:3312 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.
1 Peter 3:712 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.
Proverbs 31:1011 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
1 Peter 3:110 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;
What does the Bible say about marriage and children?
Readers most often cite Genesis 1:28 on the subject of marriage and children. Across 405 votes, 20 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:4, 1 Corinthians 7:1-40, Genesis 2:18. This page lists all 20 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.