What Does the Bible Say About God Giving Us Our Wife?

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Genesis 2:22-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 4 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 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Ephesians 5:25-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, ...

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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.”

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

Proverbs 31:10-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

Genesis 29:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

Genesis 24:67 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

15 Bible Verses about God Giving Us Our Wife

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Genesis 2:22-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 29:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 24:67 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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15 Bible Verses about God Giving Us Our Wife

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Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Genesis 2:22-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 29:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 24:67 ESV / 4 helpful votes