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Wedding Vows Genesis 2:24 ESV / 46 helpful votes Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 41 helpful votes 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! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 34 helpful votes Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 34 helpful votes If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 25 helpful votes Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 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. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, …Matthew 19:6 ESV / 24 helpful votes So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 22 helpful votes However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 22 helpful votes Let all that you do be done in love.1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 21 helpful votes Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 21 helpful votes But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 19 helpful votes He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.Colossians 3:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.Colossians 3:12-19 ESV / 18 helpful votes Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. …Mark 10:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”Genesis 2:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.Matthew 5:31-32 ESV / 13 helpful votes “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of se
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