Ephesians 5:31
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.”
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Ephesians 5:31
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.”
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Genesis 7:7
Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
Deuteronomy 17:17
He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
Judges 8:30
Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.
2 Samuel 3:2
Sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
2 Samuel 3:3
and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
2 Samuel 3:4
and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
2 Samuel 3:5
and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
2 Samuel 5:13
David took more concubines and wives for himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.
2 Samuel 5:14
These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
2 Samuel 5:15
Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,
2 Samuel 5:16
Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
1 Kings 11:3
He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.
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Leviticus 18:18
“ ‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.
1 Samuel 1:4
When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters;
1 Samuel 1:5
but he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel 1:6
Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel 1:7
So year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.
1 Samuel 1:8
Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
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Ruth 3:11
Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.
Proverbs 12:4
A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 18:22
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
Proverbs 19:14
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Proverbs 31:10
Who can find a worthy woman? For her value is far above rubies.
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Numbers 10:29
Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”
Psalms 45:9
Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
Psalms 45:11
So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.
Psalms 45:12
The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.
Psalms 45:13
The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.
Psalms 45:14
She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
Isaiah 54:5
For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.
Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 62:4
You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.
Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
Matthew 22:5
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise;
Revelation 19:8
It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
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Proverbs 11:17
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
Ecclesiastes 4:5
The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
Romans 1:31
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
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Proverbs 2:17
who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;
Song of Solomon 6:8
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
Song of Solomon 6:9
My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.
Matthew 19:4
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
Mark 10:9
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
1 Corinthians 7:10
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
1 Corinthians 7:11
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:12
But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
1 Corinthians 7:13
The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
1 Corinthians 7:33
but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
Colossians 3:22
Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
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Song of Solomon 2:7
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
Song of Solomon 3:1
By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
Song of Solomon 6:13
Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?
Song of Solomon 8:4
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friends
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Genesis 24:67
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Ecclesiastes 7:28
which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
Malachi 2:15
Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Matthew 19:7
They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce and divorce her?”
Matthew 19:8
He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
2 Corinthians 11:1
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
1 Peter 3:7
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
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Luke 2:48
When they saw him, they were astonished; and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.”
Luke 2:49
He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
Luke 8:19
His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd.
Luke 8:20
Some people told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”
Luke 8:21
But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”
Luke 11:27
It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”
Luke 11:28
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
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John 10:28
I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
John 10:29
My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
John 13:1
Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
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Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),
Mark 10:5
But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
Luke 20:34
Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage.
1 Corinthians 7:2
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:6
But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
1 Corinthians 7:7
Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
1 Corinthians 7:8
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn with passion.
1 Corinthians 7:15
Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
1 Corinthians 7:16
For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
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Romans 6:5
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
Romans 12:4
For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,
Romans 12:5
so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,
Romans 12:9
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
1 Corinthians 6:15
Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 12:12
For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:13
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:27
Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
Ephesians 4:12
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,
Ephesians 4:15
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,
Ephesians 4:16
from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
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Acts 3:26
God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”
1 Corinthians 15:45
So also it is written, “The first man Adam became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
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Ephesians 5:21
subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
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Ephesians 6:21
But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things.
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Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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2 Peter 1:2
Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
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2 Peter 1:3
seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,
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Revelation 17:5
And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
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