Bible Verses About The Marriage Bed
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for the marriage bed, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 882 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 The Marriage Bed
Hebrews 13:4117 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4092 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Proverbs 5:18-1963 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Colossians 3:1948 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Ephesians 5:22-2441 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Corinthians 10:1336 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1 Corinthians 6:1832 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Job 31:130 votes
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Galatians 5:16-2130 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:12-1629 votes
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
1 Peter 3:129 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;
Ephesians 5:1-3322 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Proverbs 18:2221 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Genesis 2:2420 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Malachi 2:1620 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.
Luke 16:1820 votes
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Ephesians 5:2219 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:218 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:918 votes
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Psalms 91:1-1617 votes
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Matthew 5:3217 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.
Romans 7:217 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.
1 Corinthians 6:1317 votes
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Ephesians 5:22-3317 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Exodus 20:1-2616 votes
And God spake all these words, saying,
What does the Bible say about the marriage bed?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of the marriage bed. Across 882 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 7:1-40, Proverbs 5:18-19, Colossians 3:19. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.