What is the meaning of marriage in the Bible?
The Bible indicates that marriage is a spiritual, binding connection between a man and a woman.
The Bible records marriage in Genesis itself saying that the woman is “now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh” for which she is called woman as she is taken out of man. This talks about the level of intimacy man and woman share in marriage. They are never meant to be alone but as one.
The Bible is against divorce and adultery in a marriage. Both of these things are highly frowned upon and anyone found guilty in the past were punished which proves that adultery and divorce is not acccepted.
Marriage as a picture of Christ and the church is a flawed metaphor as humans are flawed, but it points us to the greater reality that Jesus will never leave his church and even gave himself up for the church (his people - Christians) on the cross, just like husbands are to serve their wives and give themselves up for them.
Biblically marriage is understood as the union between one man and one women. Books of the bible that speak of marriage include Genesis, Romans, 1 Corinthians and the Gospels. In recent years, many mainline Protestant denominations have taken a more expansive view of marriage to include the union between committed, same-gendered partners. Biblical marriage is intended to be “for life,” so long as there are not issues with neglect, infidelity, or abandonment.