What Does the Bible Say About Marriage?

Marriage appears from the Bible's second chapter to its final book. These verses show what Scripture says — not what any denomination interprets it to mean.

18 verses·6 eras·15 promises

Judges (~1200 BC)

Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after 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;
Ruth 1:16· RuthPromise
where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."
Ruth 1:17· RuthPromise

Life of Jesus (~30 AD)

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
He said to them, "This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

creation

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

patriarchs

Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.
I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

wilderness

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

revelation

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

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