13 Bible Verses about Marriage Controlled

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has his father's wife!

because John had persistently said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."

For John had repeatedly told Herod, "You have no right to be living with your brother's wife."

and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be one'?

"If this is the case with a man in relation to his wife," said the disciples to Him, "it is better not to marry."

But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, but the Lord's--that a wife is not to leave her husband;

But I tell you that every man who puts away his wife except on the ground of unfaithfulness causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries her when so divorced commits adultery.

A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;

wherever there is a man of blameless life, true to his one wife, having children who are themselves believers and are free from every reproach of profligacy or of stubborn self-will.

A deacon must be true to his one wife, and rule his children and his own household wisely and well.

No widow is to be put on the roll who is under sixty years of age.

A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.

A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.