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Bible Verses for Weddings

Verses for wedding readings, cards and vows. Most couples choose a passage about what love does, or a blessing for the life they are starting together.

All 16 verses

• Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

  The best-known wedding reading: love described by what it does.

  1 Corinthians 13:4

• We love him, because he first loved us.

  Our love is a response to being loved first.

  1 John 4:19

• The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

  The ancient priestly blessing, often spoken over couples and children.

  Numbers 6:24–26

• Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

  Love bears, believes, hopes and endures all things.

  1 Corinthians 13:7

• And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

  Faith, hope and love remain, and love is the greatest.

  1 Corinthians 13:13

• And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

  Love binds every other virtue together.

  Colossians 3:14

• Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

  Many waters cannot put out love.

  Song of Solomon 8:7

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

  The first marriage: two become one flesh.

  Genesis 2:24

• Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

  Two are better than one.

  Ecclesiastes 4:9

• And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

  A threefold cord is not quickly broken, often read as husband, wife and God.

  Ecclesiastes 4:12

• And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

  Ruth's vow of loyalty to Naomi, now a favorite wedding promise.

  Ruth 1:16

• Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

  Husbands are called to love as Christ loved the church, sacrificially.

  Ephesians 5:25

• What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

  What God has joined together, let no one separate.

  Mark 10:9

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

  Finding a wife is finding a good thing and God's favor.

  Proverbs 18:22

• With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

  Humility, gentleness and patience, bearing with one another in love.

  Ephesians 4:2

• Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

  Be devoted to one another and honor one another above yourselves.

  Romans 12:10

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