30 Bible Verses About Engagement

“That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.”

“He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord.”

“But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.”

“So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”

“And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”

“My beloved is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies.”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”

“So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.”

“Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.”

“Do everything in love.”

“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”

“We love because he first loved us.”

“A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.”

“Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.”

“Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the room of the one who conceived me.”

“Husbands, in the same way, be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.”

“Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.”

“In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.”

“But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”

“Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.”

“Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.”

“But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.”

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

“So they called Rebekah and asked her, ‘Will you go with this man?’ ‘I will go,’ she said.”

“Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”