Bible Verses About Marriage Laws
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marriage laws, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,448 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 Marriage Laws
Hebrews 13:4107 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Genesis 2:24105 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4075 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Ephesians 5:2568 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Luke 16:1866 votes
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
1 Peter 3:765 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 5:3363 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.
Matthew 5:3262 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.
Mark 10:949 votes
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Matthew 19:947 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.
Genesis 2:1843 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.
1 Timothy 3:243 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Proverbs 31:1042 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs 18:2238 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Ephesians 5:2837 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Exodus 21:1036 votes
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Colossians 3:1936 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1 Corinthians 7:3935 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.
1 Peter 4:835 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Matthew 19:534 votes
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Matthew 19:4-632 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,
Matthew 19:631 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Romans 7:331 votes
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Ephesians 5:22-3331 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Romans 7:229 votes
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
What does the Bible say about marriage laws?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of marriage laws. Across 2,448 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 2:24, 1 Corinthians 7:1-40, Ephesians 5:25. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.