Bible Verses About Who You Should Marry
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for who you should marry, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 635 votes, led by 2 Corinthians 6:14. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Who You Should Marry
2 Corinthians 6:1498 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Genesis 2:1853 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 31:10-3153 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4051 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Deuteronomy 7:3-436 votes
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Romans 7:234 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 19:4-631 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,
Mark 10:1231 votes
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Hebrews 13:429 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Ephesians 5:22-3326 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Numbers 36:624 votes
This is the thing which the Lord doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
Leviticus 18:6-1222 votes
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.
Matthew 19:922 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.
Luke 16:1822 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 5:3322 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.
1 Peter 5:1021 votes
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Mark 10:2-1216 votes
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
Deuteronomy 24:1-412 votes
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Matthew 5:3212 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.
Leviticus 21:13-1410 votes
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
Mark 10:1010 votes
And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
What does the Bible say about who you should marry?
Readers most often cite 2 Corinthians 6:14 on the subject of who you should marry. Across 635 votes, 21 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 2:18, Proverbs 31:10-31, 1 Corinthians 7:1-40. This page lists all 21 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.