The one element that almost every reading includes is a passage from the bible. We have put together all of the passages related to marriage that we could find.   If you have a passage that is not listed below, please email us at biblical@foreverwed.com   We would love to share your passage with our readers.

Colossians 3

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Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

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Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

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And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

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Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.

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Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

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And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

1 Thessalonians 4

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Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.

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For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

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It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;

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that each of you should learn to control his own body^[1] in a way that is holy and honorable,

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not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God;

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and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you.

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For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.

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Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

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Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.

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And in fact, you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more.

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Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you,

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so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

1 John 3

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Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

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This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence

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whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

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Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God

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and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.

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And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

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Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

1 John 4

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Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

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Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son^[1] into the world that we might live through him.

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This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for^[2] our sins.

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Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

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We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

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And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

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If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.

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And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

1 John 4

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And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

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In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.

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There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

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We love because he first loved us.

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If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

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And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.