Bible Verses About The Meaning of Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for the meaning of marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,107 votes, led by Ephesians 5:25-32. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about The Meaning of Marriage
Ephesians 5:25-32112 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Genesis 2:18-2599 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.
Ephesians 5:3182 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.
Genesis 2:2459 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Leviticus 18:2258 votes
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Hebrews 13:458 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:1-1653 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Ephesians 5:2549 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:22-3348 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Romans 13:8-1047 votes
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Matthew 19:4-544 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 19:1-3043 votes
And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan;
1 Corinthians 6:942 votes
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Genesis 2:1837 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.
Ephesians 5:31-3236 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.
Mark 10:2-1234 votes
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
1 Peter 3:728 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.
Matthew 19:926 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.
1 Peter 3:1-626 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;
Genesis 2:2325 votes
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
1 Corinthians 13:1-1322 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.
John 14:1420 votes
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Deuteronomy 22:13-2119 votes
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
John 2:115 votes
And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
1 Timothy 5:914 votes
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
What does the Bible say about the meaning of marriage?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 5:25-32 on the subject of the meaning of marriage. Across 1,107 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 2:18-25, Ephesians 5:31, Genesis 2:24. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.