Original collection
Marriage & Divorce Gen 2:23-24; Matt 5:31-32; 19:3-9; 1 Cor 7:1-5, 10-16, 39
Key KJV Scriptures:
Genesis 2:18-24; Matthew 19:3-9; Ephesians 5:22-33; 1 Corinthians 7:1-5; Hebrews 13:4
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
32 indexed verses · Showing 1–32. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Genesis 2:18 (KJV)
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Genesis 2:19 (KJV)
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Genesis 2:20 (KJV)
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Genesis 2:21 (KJV)
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Genesis 2:22 (KJV)
And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis 2:23 (KJV)
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Genesis 2:24 (KJV)
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matthew 19:3 (KJV)
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
Matthew 19:4 (KJV)
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Matthew 19:5 (KJV)
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Matthew 19:6 (KJV)
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Matthew 19:7 (KJV)
They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
Matthew 19:8 (KJV)
He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Matthew 19:9 (KJV)
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
1 Corinthians 7:1 (KJV)
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 7:2 (KJV)
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:3 (KJV)
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1 Corinthians 7:4 (KJV)
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
1 Corinthians 7:5 (KJV)
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Ephesians 5:22 (KJV)
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:23 (KJV)
For 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.
Ephesians 5:24 (KJV)
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Ephesians 5:25 (KJV)
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:26 (KJV)
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Ephesians 5:27 (KJV)
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Ephesians 5:28 (KJV)
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 5:29 (KJV)
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Ephesians 5:30 (KJV)
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Ephesians 5:31 (KJV)
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:32 (KJV)
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:33 (KJV)
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Hebrews 13:4 (KJV)
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.