Bible Verses About Young Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for young marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,041 votes, led by 1 Timothy 4:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Young Marriage
1 Timothy 4:12167 votes
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Proverbs 18:22140 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Song of Songs 8:4131 votes
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
1 Corinthians 7:9130 votes
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Ephesians 5:22-33126 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:36-38119 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.
2 Corinthians 6:14109 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Matthew 19:4-6101 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,
1 Timothy 5:1486 votes
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
1 Peter 3:1-784 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;
Deuteronomy 24:568 votes
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
Genesis 2:2467 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 29:18-2063 votes
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
Ruth 1:16-1762 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:
Proverbs 19:1459 votes
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 5:1846 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs 31:1037 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs 31:10-3136 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
1 Corinthians 13:4-736 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Titus 2:4-536 votes
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
1 Corinthians 7:3635 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.
Genesis 2:18-2433 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.
Isaiah 62:530 votes
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
Ecclesiastes 9:928 votes
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Genesis 2:22-2426 votes
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
What does the Bible say about young marriage?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 4:12 on the subject of young marriage. Across 2,041 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 18:22, Song of Songs 8:4, 1 Corinthians 7:9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.