20 Bible Verses about

Marriage in the Family

1 Timothy 3:12 BSB

A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.

When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

Titus 1:6 BSB

An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.

1 Corinthians 7:14 BSB

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

2 Kings 4:1 BSB

Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”

Jeremiah 6:11 BSB

But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.

Judges 14:15 BSB

So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

Proverbs 12:4 BSB

A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.

Ephesians 5:23 BSB

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

Ephesians 5:33 BSB

Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Romans 7:2 BSB

For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

Proverbs 31:28 BSB

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband praises her as well:

Isaiah 54:1 BSB

“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.