What do scriptures teach about marriage?

The Synopsis and Codification, section IV.C.1.a.–o., summarizes and synthesizes the provisions in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and Questions

Love between man and woman must be kept sacred and holy. Marriage is a command of God. It is necessary to the community, for humanity is continued through the practice of this law, but the family life should be pure, soul-elevating so that the children may breathe the uncontamina

Should resentment or antipathy arise between husband and wife, he is not to divorce her but to bide in patience throughout the course of one whole year, that perchance the fragrance of affection may be renewed between them. If, upon the completion of this period, their love hath

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; ^10:8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; ^5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, ^5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkl

“The Lord God said: It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make a helper for him alongside him” (Genesis 2:18). “The Lord God said: It is not good that [the man] should be” – we learned: The world was created with ten [divine] utterances. 5:1. These are: “In the begi

“It is not good” – Rabbi Yaakov taught: Anyone who does not have a wife is without good, without help, without joy, without blessing, without atonement. Without good – “it is not good that the man should be alone.” Without help – “I will make a helper for him alongside him.” With

then this latter man rejects her, writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his household; or the man who married her last dies.

30. "In five ways should a wife as the western direction be respected by a husband: by honoring, not disrespecting, being faithful, sharing authority, and by giving gifts.

Husband & wife, both of them having conviction, being responsive, being restrained, living by the Dhamma, addressing each other with loving words: they benefit in manifold ways. To them comes bliss. Their enemies are dejected when both are in tune in virtue. Having followed the D

[The Blessed One said:] "If both husband & wife want to see one another not only in the present life but also in the life to come, they should be in tune [with each other] in conviction, in tune in virtue, in tune in generosity, and in tune in discernment. Then they will see one

the dower ye have given them,-except where they have been guilty of open lewdness; on the contrary live with them on a footing of kindness and equity If ye take a dislike to them it may be that ye dislike a thing, and Allah brings about through it a great deal of good 20 But if y

1 O mankind Be careful of your duty to your Lord Who created you from a single soul and from it created its mate and from them twain hath spread abroad a multitude of men and women Be careful of your duty toward Allah in Whom ye claim (your rights) of one another, and toward the

1 O mankind reverence your Guardian-Lord, who created you from a single person, created, of like nature, His mate, and from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and women;- reverence Allah, through whom ye demand your mutual (rights), and (reverence) the wombs (That bo

ਸੋਹਾਗਣੀ ਸੀਗਾਰੁ ਬਣਾਇਆ ਗੁਣ ਕਾ ਗਲਿ ਹਾਰੁ ॥ The happy soul-bride has adorned herself with the necklace of virtue.

ਕਹੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਜਉ ਪਿਰਹਿ ਸੀਗਾਰੀ ॥ Says Nanak, when the happy soul-bride is adorned by her Beloved,

ਤਿਸੁ ਬਣਿਆ ਹਭੁ ਸੀਗਾਰੁ ਸਾਈ ਸੋਹਾਗਣੇ ॥ She is totally adorned and decorated; she is a happy soul-bride.

“At length Kama began to trouble him. Briefly the saint and saintess were made man and wife, by the simple form of matrimony called the Gandharba-vivaha,[31] and about ten months afterwards a son was born to them. Thus the anchorite came to have a child.