Bible Verses About Marriage
Marriage in scripture is described less as a feeling and more as a covenant — a bond meant to hold even when things get hard.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow... a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
A practical, almost mathematical case for partnership — strength found in two, not one.
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.
One of the earliest descriptions of marriage in scripture — leaving and joining, together.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not... beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Often read at weddings — a description of love as patient action, not just feeling.
Colossians 3:14
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Love described as what holds everything else in a marriage together.
Mark 10:9
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
A short, weighty verse on the seriousness of the commitment being made.