Quotes About Marriage

But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ëmade them male and female,í

and said, ëFor this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one fleshí?

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”

Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hardness of heart; but it was not this way from the beginning.

Now I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman, commits adultery.”

His disciples said to Him, “If this is the case between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.”

“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died without having children. So he left his wife to his brother.

The same thing happened to the second and third brothers, down to the seventh.

And last of all, the woman died.

In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? For all of them were married to her.”

In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.

For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philipís wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.

For John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brotherís wife!”

Some Pharisees came to test Him. “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” they inquired.

“What did Moses command you?” He replied.

They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

ëFor this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,

and the two will become one flesh.í So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”