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What Does the Bible Say About Finding a Spouse?

Here are 17 Bible verses about Finding a Spouse, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Proverbs 18:22

    Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

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

  2. #2Genesis 2:24

    Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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

  3. #32 Corinthians 6:14

    Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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

  4. #4Psalms 37:4

    Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

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

  5. #5Genesis 2:18

    And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

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

  6. #6Philippians 4:19

    But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

    BSBAnd my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

  7. #7Proverbs 31:10

    Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

    BSBA wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.

  8. #81 John 4:18

    There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

    BSBThere is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.

  9. #9Proverbs 19:14

    House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

    BSBHouses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

  10. #10Proverbs 12:4

    A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

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

  11. #11Ephesians 5:3

    But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

    BSBBut among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

  12. #121 John 4:8

    He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

    BSBWhoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

  13. #131 Corinthians 10:13

    There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

    BSBNo temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

  14. #14Luke 16:18

    Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

    BSBAnyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

  15. #15Jeremiah 29:11

    For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

    BSBFor I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

  16. #161 Corinthians 6:9-11

    Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

    BSBDo you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

  17. #171 Corinthians 6:18

    Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

    BSBFlee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Verse rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY). Scripture: KJV & BSB (public domain).

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