Marriage vowes in Bible

Answer 1

You can find a set of vows in the book of Ruth, first chapter, verses 16 and 17.

Today's society has forgotten that the "institution of marriage" is of God's creation and design, and not a negotiable business contract written by man.

"...she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and SHALL CLEAVE UNTO HIS WIFE: and they shall be one flesh." (Gen.2:23-24)

God has decreed the vows by which His sanctified marriage structure shall be conducted.

"GIVING THANKS ALWAYS FOR ALL THINGS UNTO GOD and THE FATHER IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves ONE TO ANOTHER in the fear of God.

"WIVES, submit yourselves unto YOUR OWN HUSBANDS, as unto the Lord. For THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE, even as Christ is the HEAD OF THE CHURCH: and He is the Saviour of the Body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

"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.

"This is a great mystery: but I speak CONCERNING CHRIST AND THE CHURCH." (Eph.5:20-32)

This is the marriage arrangement God has decreed for man. It's of "Divine Design." A "selfless" relationship, where the man and the woman struggle, grow and develop "together" in spirit [as Christ and His Church] work as one... to rear their children [and the Children of God] in the wisdom and knowledge and the Commandments of the Lord.

The "vows" the man and the woman [or man and man; or woman and woman] since creation offer one another in their fleshly unions, are the result of man's "customs and traditions" that has changed with the generations with their diverse and carnal minded hostility to God's laws [Rom.8:7].

"...God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." (Gen.6:5)

There's no scripture that commands the exchange of marriage vows in The Bible. God is the natural binding power of marriage, and He has told us how the marriage structure is to be handled and what He expects to come of it. And it has always been man's duty to obey His commands in the matter.

A Divine matter that He will discuss with His creation in the Judgment... and for which all men shall be required to give an answer.

Answer 2

Wedding vows used to reflect God's view of it regarding the husband being the "head" of the marriage structure... but the part where the woman used to promise to "obey" her husband has disappeared from most, if not all, modern vows.

"You wives will submit to your husbands as you do the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of His Body, the church; He gave His Life to be her Savior. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything." (Eph.5:22-24 NLT New Living Translation)

"And you husbands MUST LOVE YOUR WIVES with the same Love Christ showed the church. He gave up His Life for here to make her Holy and Clean, washed by the baptism of His Word." (verses 25-26)

"This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. So again I say, each man must Love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband." (verses 32-33)

The above Scriptural passages aren't wedding vows... but they do reveal to man the way the marriage structure, which God created, works, ideally -- in relationship to our Creator.

The only actual "wedding vows" in the Bible that immediately comes to mind is in Exodus 19:

"Now IF YOU WILL OBEY ME and keep My covenant, you will be My own special treasure from among all the nations of the earth; for all the earth belongs to Me. And you will be to Me a Kingdom of Priests, My Holy Nation..." (Ex.19:5-6 NLT).

What woman would refuse such a marriage proposal from a guy who owns everything?

Moses, then, relayed God's marriage proposal and vows to the Israelites, and:

"They all responded together, 'We will certainly DO everything the Lord asks of us... [I DO!!!]" (verse 8)

It's not anything fancy [just a simple promise to make them the greatest nation on the face of the earth]. But the Bible reveals that marriage is a creation of God, intended, as He does in all things, to keep us mindful of His Sovereignty over and His Love for His creation, for whom He gave His Life.

Not too many people recognize God's covenant with ancient Israel as a "marriage." Or that that God was "Jesus Christ" ["...all things were made by Him..." John 1:3]. Thus, does Paul teach and instruct the Gentile churches of their relationship to God as a marriage.

"...I will make a New Covenant... not according to the covenant I made with their fathers... which My covenant they brake, although I WAS AN HUSBAND TO THEM, saith the Lord: but this shall be the covenant that I will make with the House of Israel... I will put My Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts..." (Jer.31:31-33 KJV).

Paul's description of the "pecking order" of the marriage structure to the Ephesians is a perfect description of the vows that went down, anciently, when Jesus Christ, the WORD, proposed marriage to Abraham's children... and they said, "I Do."

Answer 3

There is a set of vows in the bible in the book of Ruth, chapter 1, verses 16-17.

Answer 4

The three vowls that are made in a christian wedding are

-To love

- To Cherish

- And to be faithful