Wanting to Be Married

The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

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

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.

Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.

But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.

Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ …