Bible Verses About The Marriage Ceremony
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for the marriage ceremony, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 611 votes, led by Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about The Marriage Ceremony
Ecclesiastes 4:9-1289 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Colossians 3:12-1957 votes
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Genesis 2:2445 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 13:4-1339 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Proverbs 18:2237 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Genesis 2:1834 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.
Mark 10:931 votes
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Ruth 1:16-1729 votes
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
Romans 8:2824 votes
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Hebrews 13:424 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Matthew 19:4-623 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,
Ephesians 5:22-3323 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Song of Songs 8:6-722 votes
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Psalms 128:1-620 votes
Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways.
Genesis 2:21-2418 votes
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
1 Corinthians 13:1-1317 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 16:1417 votes
Let all your things be done with charity.
Ephesians 4:1-315 votes
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
Matthew 5:13-1613 votes
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
1 Corinthians 7:10-1112 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
1 Corinthians 7:3912 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.
Matthew 7:24-2910 votes
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
What does the Bible say about the marriage ceremony?
Readers most often cite Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 on the subject of the marriage ceremony. Across 611 votes, 22 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:12-19, Genesis 2:24, 1 Corinthians 13:4-13. This page lists all 22 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.