Bible Verses About Marriage and Family
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marriage and family, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 160,896 votes, led by Genesis 2:24. Each passage links into the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Marriage and Family
Genesis 2:244,468 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Peter 3:73,962 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.
Genesis 2:183,834 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.
Hebrews 13:43,621 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Proverbs 18:223,561 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Ephesians 5:333,224 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 5:252,998 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
2 Corinthians 6:142,438 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Matthew 19:4-62,222 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 10:6-92,222 votes
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Malachi 2:162,141 votes
For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
Ephesians 5:22-332,108 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:22-241,963 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Peter 4:81,916 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Proverbs 31:101,880 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
1 Timothy 5:81,863 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
1 Corinthians 7:1-401,826 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Proverbs 19:141,791 votes
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Colossians 3:18-191,785 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Mark 10:91,783 votes
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Proverbs 12:41,780 votes
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
1 Corinthians 7:391,704 votes
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Proverbs 22:61,606 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Ecclesiastes 4:121,576 votes
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
1 Corinthians 13:4-81,549 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,