Quotes about Marriage

All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

And from among the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai (who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).

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

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.

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