Marriage — Page 2
Verses 11–20 of 75
Song of Solomon 3:4 KJV
“It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go.”
Context & Meaning
The Song of Solomon celebrates the intense longing and joy of marital love, a passion that seeks and holds the beloved with deep, whole-soul devotion.
1 Peter 3:7 KJV
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”
Context & Meaning
Peter calls husbands to live knowledgeably with their wives, understanding them, and to honor them as co-heirs of grace, noting that dishonoring a wife disrupts one's prayer life.
Ecclesiastes 9:9 KJV
“Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.”
Context & Meaning
Qoheleth treats a loving marriage as one of life's chief blessings, a source of joy in an uncertain world, given by God as a gracious portion and inheritance.
Ruth 1:16 KJV
“And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.”
Context & Meaning
While Ruth spoke to her mother-in-law, these words of covenant loyalty are often used in marriage, they capture the spirit of unconditional commitment that marriage requires.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5 KJV
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.”
Context & Meaning
Paul's famous love definition serves as a portrait of what marriage love looks like in daily practice, patient, kind, humble, and self-denying.
Ephesians 5:22 KJV
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
Ephesians 5:23 KJV
“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”
Ephesians 5:24 KJV
“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.”
Ephesians 5:26 KJV
“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”
Ephesians 5:27 KJV
“That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”