What Does the Bible Say About Mate?

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Proverbs 21:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Genesis 2:18-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. ...

1 John 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Matthew 19:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

James 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” ...

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Isaiah 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My people—infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Genesis 38:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.” But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.

32 Bible Verses about Mate

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 38:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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32 Bible Verses about Mate

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 21:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:18-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 2:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 38:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 1 helpful vote