Quotes about Betrothal

Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decreed.”

Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”

But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.

Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.

And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.”

However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.