For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.

And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

Let us be glad with delight, and let us give glory to him: because the time is come for the Lamb to be married, and his wife has made herself ready.

Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.

I will take you as my bride in good faith, and you will have knowledge of the Lord.

And I will take you as my bride for ever; truly, I will take you as my bride in righteousness and in right judging, in love and in mercies.

For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts.

For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a feast when his son was married,

For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause; he will be named the God of all the earth.