biblical passages for the wedding
When you attend a Christian wedding ceremony in a church or any other wedding venue, they always have a book reading part, where somebody from either the wedding party or any guest, would read a verse, or passage from the bible.
Here is a list of some of my favorite biblical passages, which you can use for your wedding ceremony or reception. You can also incorporate this on your speech if you are the maid of honor, groomsman or parent of the couple.
Let’s start with the most popular one that we’ve all heard so many times at weddings. They even put it in signs at homes. It’s EVERYWHERE. As it should be, because it is such a powerful verse about what love is about.
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.
Ephesians 5: 22 - 30
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.
Ephesians 5: 31 – 33
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
1 Peter 4: 8 - 9
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.
Ephesians 4: 31-32
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
Corinthians 13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Romans 12:9
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
Colossians 3: 13 - 15
Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Colossians 3: 18 - 19
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Ephesians 4:2
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Jude 1:2
Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
