Bible Verses About Wanting to Get Married
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for wanting to get married, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,209 votes, led by Genesis 2:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Wanting to Get Married
Genesis 2:18223 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.
Proverbs 18:22177 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:2149 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Genesis 2:24145 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Hebrews 13:4145 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Matthew 19:4-6134 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,
2 Corinthians 6:14125 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
1 Corinthians 7:9114 votes
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
1 Timothy 5:14107 votes
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Proverbs 19:14103 votes
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Ephesians 5:22-3396 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Proverbs 31:10-1193 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
1 Peter 3:1-745 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 5:3143 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.
Matthew 6:3341 votes
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
1 Corinthians 7:8-940 votes
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Song of Songs 8:6-739 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.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-1035 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
1 Peter 3:734 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.
Song of Songs 3:431 votes
It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
1 Corinthians 7:2826 votes
But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-1224 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Ruth 1:16-1723 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:
1 Corinthians 7:3621 votes
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
Proverbs 12:419 votes
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
What does the Bible say about wanting to get married?
Readers most often cite Genesis 2:18 on the subject of wanting to get married. Across 2,209 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 18:22, 1 Corinthians 7:2, Genesis 2:24. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.