26 Bible Verses about Married Couples (KJV)

Here are 26 Bible verses about married couples, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Genesis 2:24 KJV

²⁴Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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1 Peter 3:7 KJV

⁷Likewise, 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.

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1 Corinthians 7:1-40 KJV

¹Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. ²Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. ³Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. ⁴The wife hath not power of her own body, but the …

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Matthew 19:6 KJV

⁶Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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Ephesians 5:33 KJV

³³Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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Hebrews 13:4 KJV

⁴Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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1 Timothy 3:2 KJV

²A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

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1 Corinthians 7:10-11 KJV

¹⁰And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: ¹¹But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

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Galatians 5:19-21 KJV

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of …

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Deuteronomy 25:5-6 KJV

⁵If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her. ⁶And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

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Ephesians 5:22 KJV

²²Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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Romans 13:14 KJV

¹⁴But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

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Acts 2:38 KJV

³⁸Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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Luke 6:12 KJV

¹²And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

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Ephesians 5:23 KJV

²³For 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.

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Proverbs 6:27 KJV

²⁷Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

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Genesis 1:28 KJV

²⁸And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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1 Corinthians 6:16 KJV

¹⁶What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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Acts 21:9 KJV

⁹And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.

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Acts 17:6 KJV

⁶And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

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Matthew 5:28 KJV

²⁸But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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Psalm 127:1 KJV

¹Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

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Genesis 38:8-10 KJV

⁸And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. ⁹And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. ¹⁰And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

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Titus 2:5 KJV

⁵To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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1 Timothy 5:11-12 KJV

¹¹But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; ¹²Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.

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1 Corinthians 6:18 KJV

¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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