Age Differences In Marriage

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 19 helpful votes Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

James 1:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Genesis 17:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 9 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.

1 Corinthians 7:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

Romans 7:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Genesis 29:20-28 ESV / 6 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. Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.” So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast. But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her. (Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.) ...

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

Revelation 17:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” ...

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 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.

Deuteronomy 7:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Ephesians 5:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

Jude 1:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

John 8:44 ESV / 1 helpful vote You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote “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.”

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not HelpfulSo God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.