Bible studies about marriage, important things to know about marriage, answers to questions about marriage, and Bible verses about marriage. 

Bible Studies About Marriage

• ​When a man marries a woman he leaves his father and mother and cleaves to his wife by being loyal and unwavering in his devotion and duty toward her.
• 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.

A good marriage can help you accomplish more and make you stronger.

• Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up. Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone? And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

​Marriage of men and women-What Jesus said:

• 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,
• Matthew 19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
• Matthew 19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

​What the Apostle Paul said about fornication, marriage, and divorce:

• 1 Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
• 1 Corinthians 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
• 1 Corinthians 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
• 1 Corinthians 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
• 1 Corinthians 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
• 1 Corinthians 7:6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
• 1 Corinthians 7:7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
• 1 Corinthians 7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
• 1 Corinthians 7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
• ​1 Corinthians 7:10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
  1 Corinthians 7:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
  1 Corinthians 7:12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
  1 Corinthians 7:13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
  1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. Read I Corinthians Chapter 7

What Jesus said about divorce:

• Matthew 19:7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
• Matthew 19:8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
• Matthew 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Unmarried people can focus more on the Lord than married people who tend to focus on each other.

• ​1 Corinthians 7:32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
• 1 Corinthians 7:33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
• 1 Corinthians 7:34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

​Marriage is honorable and the marriage bed should be undefiled (not corrupt or impure).

• Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

A married woman can remarry after her husband dies.

• 1 Corinthians 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

​If you have had more than one husband or wife which one will be with you in the resurrection, in heaven?

• Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

If a man has sexual relations with a virgin he has intended to marry, they should marry.

• 1 Corinthians 7:36 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.
• 1 Corinthians 7:37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
• 1 Corinthians 7:38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

​Apostle Paul's opinion about men being virgins when they marry:

• 1 Corinthians 7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
• 1 Corinthians 7:26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

​Can you marry your ex wife's sister?

• ​Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time. Lev. 17:18

​What the Bible says about same sex marriage:

• Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination. Lev. 13:2

Bible Studies About Marriage

The Role of the Biblical Husband

The Role of the Biblical Wife

Unequally Yoked in Marriage

Bride of Christ

​Recommended Reading: The Purpose of Marriage

Forbidden Sexual Immorality

More Bible Verses About Marriage

Bible verses about Marriage of the Lamb:

• Revelation 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
• Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
• Revelation 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
• Revelation 19:9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
• Revelation 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

​What Jesus said about the marriage of the lamb:
Read Matthew Chapter 22
Timothy mentioned that forbidding to marry and forbidden meats:

• 1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
• ​1 Timothy 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
• 1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
• 1 Timothy 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
• 1 Timothy 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

What Timothy said about young widows remarrying:

• 1 Timothy 5:11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
• 1 Timothy 5:12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
• 1 Timothy 5:13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
• 1 Timothy 5:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

 ​Jesus was telling the disciples what it would be like in the end times and mentioned marriage:

• Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
• Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
• Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
• Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
  
• Matthew 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
  
• Matthew 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

"The earliest use of the English word marriage” dates back to the 13th century [1]. Marriage by Gods design is the union of one man and one woman (Genesis 2:18).  Some say that it is the ceremony (wedding) that makes the man and woman married;  Gods word tells us that it is the joining of flesh that makes the marriage (Genesis 2:24). 
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