The Christian marriage can be likened to a triangle where the Couples are adjacent to each other and God at the Apex with an expectation that the couples move towards His Lordship. The God factor is the strongest chord in the Christian family holding couples together in challenging times.
Just as the triangle depicts the binding strength of this holy union, the journey of marriage as purposed by God the Father should be solidly built on commitment from both spouses to move the family towards the divine lordship of Christ as the spiritual head of the family.
Trial times will come, but when they do, couples should always find comfort in the divine provision of solace and resilience, with its anchor on faith from above to safely navigate all life’s challenges.
The essence of this bible verse curation is to try and intersect marriage and divorce from the lens of the scripture. See what the bible has to say about marriage and divorce from these numerous verses curated from multiple versions of the Bible.
Need more than these 59 Bible verses on Marriage, Divorce and Adultery? You can as well check our previous posts on 63 bible verses for married couples.
Bible Verses on Marriage
These are some very precious scriptural words about the sanctity of marriage and God’s will for believers planning to go into marriage or already in Marriage.
1. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24)
2. “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.” (Proverbs 18:22)
3. “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.” (Hebrews 13:4)
4. “Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!” (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10)
5. “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” (Ephesians 5:25)
6. “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.” (Ephesians 5:22)
7. “Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.” (Ecclesiastes 4:12)
8. “An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.” (Proverbs 31:10)
9. “Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 9:9)
10. “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.” (Mark 10:6-8)
11. Christ’s answer on the subject of putting away and divorcement answered in verses 11 and 12 of Mark Chapter 10 “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.” – (Mark 10: 11 and 12)
“Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”…They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”
“It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a] ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b] and the two will become one flesh.’[c] So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
(Mark 10: Verses 2, 4 to 9)
12. “A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.” (1 Corinthians 7:39)
13. “House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.” (Proverbs 19:14)
14. “A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” (Proverbs 17:22)
15. “For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.” (Ephesians 5:23)
16. “Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.” (Proverbs 5:18)
17. “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” (Proverbs 31:30)
18. “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” (Proverbs 17:17)
19. “However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.” (Ephesians 5:33)
20. “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14)
21. “Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: ‘It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.’” (1 Corinthians 7:1)
22. “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.” (1 Corinthians 7:2)
23. “The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.” (1 Corinthians 7:3)
24. “For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.” (1 Corinthians 7:4)
25. “Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.” (1 Corinthians 7:5)
29. “But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.” (1 Corinthians 7:9)
30. “To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband.” (1 Corinthians 7:10)
Bible Verses on Divorce, adultery
Divorce is rampant in the world now, and it is slowly creeping into Christendom, it is gradually being excused amongst believers, and severally, Christians today have one reason or another to violate the anti-divorce injunctions of God in marriage, forgetting that God is a God of the covenant (relationship bonding and seal) as seen in “Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.” (Malachi 2:14).
Marriage is God’s own idea and this is why the injunction of Christ is that no man should put asunder what God Himself instituted.
Here are some bible verses to Biblical posits on the subject of divorce.
31. “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce. But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” (Matthew 5:31 and 32)
32. “And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.” (Matthew 19:9)
33. “Wife, how do you know whether you will save your husband? Husband, how do you know whether you will save your wife?” (1 Corinthians 7:16)
34. “For the Lord, the God of Israel, says that he hates putting away, for one covers violence with his garment, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.” (Malachi 2:16)
35. “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.” (Luke 16:18)
36. “And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.” (Matthew 19:9)
37. “But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases, the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.” (1 Corinthians 7:15)
38. “And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.” (Matthew 19:9)
39. “To the married, I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband.” (1 Corinthians 7:10)
40. “But if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband, and the husband should not divorce his wife.” (1 Corinthians 7:11)
41. “To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.” (1 Corinthians 7:12)
42. “If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.” (1 Corinthians 7:13)
43. “For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.” (1 Corinthians 7:14)
44. “But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases, the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.” (1 Corinthians 7:15)
45. “Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.” (Malachi 2:14)
46. “Thou shalt not commit adultery” – (Exodus 20:14)
47. “If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.” – (Leviticus 20:10)
48. Let’s be reminded the statement of Joseph to Potiphar’s wife in Genesis chapter 39 verse 9 “There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” – (Genesis 39:9)
49. “Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.” – (I Corinthians 6:18)
50. “your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution! I have seen your detestable acts on the hills and in the fields. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you be unclean?” – (Jeremiah 13:27)
51. “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”- (James 4: 4)
52. “But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.” – (Proverbs 6: 32)
53. “For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.” – (Romans 7: 2 and 3)
54. “Let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.” (Ephesians 5:33)
55. “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” – (Matthew 5: 27 and 28)
56. “You know the commandments: ‘You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.” – (Luke 18: 20)
57: “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.” – (Ephesians 5:3)
58. “It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body[a] in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.[b] The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.” – (1 Thessalonians 4: 3 to 7)
59. “that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, you will do well. Farewell.” – (Acts 15:29)
