Best Bible Verses for Wedding Ceremony

Are you searching for the perfect bible verse to encompass you and your partner’s love at your wedding? The verses below are perfect for reading at the ceremony and adding to the programs and invitations. These verses create a sentimental moment during the ceremony while offering wisdom for a happy and strong marriage.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 

Meaning: In these verses Paul was writing about all of the characteristics of love. Most of the characteristics are self-explanatory, however, in summary, we can do all the right things, but if you don’t have love, you have nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 

Meaning: The three things mentioned in this verse describes the three post important qualities of love. 

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Meaning: Solomon is writing to advocate about the benefits of being together and having someone rather than against one another or alone.

Proverbs 3:3-6

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you;
bind them around your neck;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
So you will find favor and good success
in the sight of God and man.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.

Meaning: This verse is reminding you to keep love and faithfulness close to them in their lives with their partner and with God.

Philippians 2:2-4

Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Meaning: In these verses, Paul is expressing that having the love of Christ was one of the keys to put others interests above our own, as we are encouraged to do in marriage.

Matthew 19:6

“So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Meaning: This New Testament verse describes marriage being indissoluble and forever together as one. 

Song of Solomon 3:4

“I found him whom my soul loves.”

Meaning: This verse is part of a conversation between two betrothed individuals and describes the speaker finding the one who they’d like to bring home to their mom and start their life together.

Romans 15:5-6

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Meaning: This verse expresses a prayer for Christians to have the same attitude toward each other that Jesus had to live in harmony with one another in their marriage.

Even better, display one of these beautiful frames engraved with your wedding verse for a unique wedding display and memento for years to come.