finding a spouse
What does the Bible say about finding a spouse? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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22He who has found a good wife has found goodness, and he shall draw contentment from the Lord. He who expels a good wife expels goodness. But he who holds on to an adulteress is foolish and impious.
24For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.
14Do not choose to bear the yoke with unbelievers. For how can justice be a participant with iniquity? Or how can the fellowship of light be a participant with darkness?
4Delight in the Lord, and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart.
18The Lord God also said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself.”
19And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
10Who shall find a strong woman? Far away, and from the furthest parts, is her price.
18Fear is not in love. Instead, perfect love casts out fear, for fear pertains to punishment. And whoever fears is not perfected in love.
14A house and its riches are given by parents. But a prudent wife is particularly from the Lord.
4A diligent woman is a crown to her husband. And she who acts with confusion as to which things are worthy is decay to his bones.
3But let not any kind of fornication, or impurity, or rapacity so much as be named among you, just as is worthy of the saints,
13Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.
8Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.
18Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. And whoever marries her who has been divorced by her husband commits adultery.
9Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers, 10nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom of God. 11And some of you were like this. But you have been absolved, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified: all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
11For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.
18Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.