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What does the Bible say about getting married?

16 verses about getting married, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about getting married

1 Corinthians 7:1 — Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 10 votes
Hebrews 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 10 votes
Genesis 2:18 — And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 6 votes
Ephesians 5:22 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 5 votes
Matthew 19:1 — And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan; 4 votes
Luke 16:18 — Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery. 4 votes
2 Corinthians 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 4 votes
Matthew 7:7 — Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 3 votes
1 Corinthians 7:27 — Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 3 votes
1 Peter 3:1 — 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; 3 votes
Genesis 2:24 — Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 2 votes
Matthew 5:32 — 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. 2 votes
Matthew 6:25 — Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 2 votes
Matthew 19:4 — 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 votes
Luke 18:29 — And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake, 2 votes
1 Corinthians 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 2 votes

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Matthew (5), 1 Corinthians (3), Genesis (2), Luke (2), 2 Corinthians (1), Ephesians (1), Hebrews (1), 1 Peter (1)

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