Bible Verses About Marriage Vows
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marriage vows, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,426 votes, led by Ephesians 5:31. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Marriage Vows
Ephesians 5:31257 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 13:4-7235 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Hebrews 13:4232 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40169 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Ephesians 5:22153 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Peter 3:7137 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 2:24128 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Romans 7:2127 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.
Matthew 5:32105 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.
Ecclesiastes 5:496 votes
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
Genesis 2:1893 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.
Malachi 2:1692 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.
James 4:1788 votes
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Ephesians 5:3381 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 19:980 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 19:3-978 votes
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
1 Corinthians 7:3971 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.
Numbers 30:1-1660 votes
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded.
Ecclesiastes 9:960 votes
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
1 Corinthians 7:3-1159 votes
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1 Peter 3:1-2259 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;
Psalms 116:1854 votes
I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people,
Luke 16:1853 votes
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-1251 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
1 Corinthians 7:249 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
What does the Bible say about marriage vows?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 5:31 on the subject of marriage vows. Across 3,426 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Hebrews 13:4, 1 Corinthians 7:1-40. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.