Marriage

On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in marriage to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.

But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.

“When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited.

When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.

He had thirty sons, as well as thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage to men outside his clan; and for his sons he brought back thirty wives from elsewhere. Ibzan judged Israel seven years.

So Bathsheba said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife.”

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,

Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

He will resolve to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and will reach an agreement with the king of the South. He will give him a daughter in marriage in order to overthrow the kingdom, but his plan will not succeed or help him.

But while they were on their way to buy it, the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.

These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So he is not reckoned according to birthright.

So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.

Jesus answered, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.

He is not to defile himself for those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself.

Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’

And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

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

Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to his servant Jarha, and she bore to him Attai.

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.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

and say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has come to hate her.

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.