Bible on Marriage

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

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.

Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.

And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.

And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.

And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.

And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson’s wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father’s house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?

And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.

A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.

And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife’s name was Maachah:

And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

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.

And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:

And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,

And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife’s name was Maachah:

And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.

Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.