Scripture Library: Marriage

Biblical Definition of Marriage: to make an agreement or covenant with, given in marriage, union, festive time in community

“Marriage should be honored by all…” ~Hebrews 13:4a

“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” ~Ephesians 5:21-25

“It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.” ~Proverbs 21:19

“The man said,“This is now bone of my bonesand flesh of my flesh;she shall be called ‘woman,’for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.” ~Genesis 2:23-24

“My beloved spoke and said to me, ‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me.'”~ Song of Solomon 2:10

“But those who marry will face many troubles in this life…” ~1 Corinthians 7:28b

“He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.” ~Proverbs 18:22

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” ~Ephesians 5:31

“Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.” ~ Psalm 85:10

“It’s good for a man to have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder. The marriage bed must be a place of mutuality—the husband seeking to satisfy his wife, the wife seeking to satisfy her husband. Marriage is not a place to “stand up for your rights.” Marriage is a decision to serve the other, whether in bed or out. Abstaining from sex is permissible for a period of time if you both agree to it, and if it’s for the purposes of prayer and fasting—but only for such times. Then come back together again. Satan has an ingenious way of tempting us when we least expect it. I’m not, understand, commanding these periods of abstinence—only providing my best counsel if you should choose them.” ~1 Corinthians 7:2-5 MSG

“Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.” ~1 Peter 3:1-2

“And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.” ~Hosea 2:19

“Look! Listen! There’s my lover! Do you see him coming? Vaulting the mountains, leaping the hills. My lover is like a gazelle, graceful; like a young stag, virile. Look at him there, on tiptoe at the gate, all ears, all eyes—ready! My lover has arrived and he’s speaking to me!” ~ Song of Solomon 2:8-9 MSG