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This is a collection of quotes that a couple or a minister might like to use in a wedding ceremony. Most are
biblical, but some are from other sources.
I have always loved this passage from Ruth. Ruth speaks it to her mother-in-law, Naomi, but I think it’s a
wonderful passage for a bride to speak at her wedding. I used both verses in my wedding, but you can just use
the first if you don't care for the second.
“Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee. For wither thou goest, I will go; and where
thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God, my God.
“Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death
part thee and me.”
Ruth 1:16-17
My beloved spake, and said unto me, “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is past;
the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines
with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away."
Song of Solomon 2:10-13
My beloved is mine, and I am his.
Song of Solomon 2:16
Thou hast ravished my heart, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heat with one of thine eyes, with one chain of
thy neck.
Song of Solomon 4:10
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm, for love is strong as death.
Song of Solomon 8:6
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
Song of Solomon 8:7
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make a help meet for him.” And the
Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed up the
flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her
unto the man.
And Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called ‘woman’ because
she was taken out of man.”
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:18, 21-24
"From the beginning of the creation, God made them, male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his
father and mother and cleave to his wife. And they shall be one flesh, so they are no more twain, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
Mark 10:6-9
Jesus unto his disciples:
"This is my commandment: that ye love one another, as I have loved you."
John 15:12
Another passage that I used in my wedding:
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.
1 John 4:7
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence, and likewise the wife unto the husband.
1 Corinthians 7:3
Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as unto the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
loved the church, and gave himself for it. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth
his wife, loveth himself. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife,
and they two shall be one flesh.
1 Ephesians 5:22, 25, 28, 31
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and be not
bitter against them.
Colossians 3:18-19
Another passage from my wedding ceremony:
In God’s name, I believe that when two good, honest folk be wed, all other loves be put afar off, destroyed and
forgotten, save the love of each other; meseems that when they are in each other’s presence, they look upon
each other more than upon others, they press each other, they hold each other, and they do not willingly speak
or make sign save to each other. All their special pleasures, their chief desires and their perfect joys be to do
pleasure and obedience unto each other, and if they love each other, they care naught for obedience and
reverence beyond the common, which is too small for many.
The Goodman of Paris, written circa 1393. Author unknown.
Let your love for each other be a seal upon your hearts, a mantle about your shoulders, and a crown upon your
foreheads.
The Book of Common Prayer
biblical, but some are from other sources.
I have always loved this passage from Ruth. Ruth speaks it to her mother-in-law, Naomi, but I think it’s a
wonderful passage for a bride to speak at her wedding. I used both verses in my wedding, but you can just use
the first if you don't care for the second.
“Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee. For wither thou goest, I will go; and where
thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God, my God.
“Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death
part thee and me.”
Ruth 1:16-17
My beloved spake, and said unto me, “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is past;
the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines
with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away."
Song of Solomon 2:10-13
My beloved is mine, and I am his.
Song of Solomon 2:16
Thou hast ravished my heart, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heat with one of thine eyes, with one chain of
thy neck.
Song of Solomon 4:10
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm, for love is strong as death.
Song of Solomon 8:6
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
Song of Solomon 8:7
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make a help meet for him.” And the
Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed up the
flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her
unto the man.
And Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called ‘woman’ because
she was taken out of man.”
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:18, 21-24
"From the beginning of the creation, God made them, male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his
father and mother and cleave to his wife. And they shall be one flesh, so they are no more twain, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
Mark 10:6-9
Jesus unto his disciples:
"This is my commandment: that ye love one another, as I have loved you."
John 15:12
Another passage that I used in my wedding:
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.
1 John 4:7
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence, and likewise the wife unto the husband.
1 Corinthians 7:3
Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as unto the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
loved the church, and gave himself for it. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth
his wife, loveth himself. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife,
and they two shall be one flesh.
1 Ephesians 5:22, 25, 28, 31
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and be not
bitter against them.
Colossians 3:18-19
Another passage from my wedding ceremony:
In God’s name, I believe that when two good, honest folk be wed, all other loves be put afar off, destroyed and
forgotten, save the love of each other; meseems that when they are in each other’s presence, they look upon
each other more than upon others, they press each other, they hold each other, and they do not willingly speak
or make sign save to each other. All their special pleasures, their chief desires and their perfect joys be to do
pleasure and obedience unto each other, and if they love each other, they care naught for obedience and
reverence beyond the common, which is too small for many.
The Goodman of Paris, written circa 1393. Author unknown.
Let your love for each other be a seal upon your hearts, a mantle about your shoulders, and a crown upon your
foreheads.
The Book of Common Prayer
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