Bible passage to read at a wedding?

Question

i'm doing a reading at my cousin's wedding and she told me t pick the passage....but she she doesn't want it to be too original like "love is patient love is blind..." does anyone have any ideas? thanks so much!

Answer 1

From where in the bible? Old Testament I like Ruth 1:16-17

' 16 But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." '

We're doing the sermon on the mount at our wedding.

Answer 2

Some of these are shorter than others, not sure what she has in mind.

Song of Solomon 2:16:

"My beloved is mine, and I am his"

Ephesians 5:31-33:

31. As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one."

32. This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.

33. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7

6. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire, like a mighty flame.

7. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

9. Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work.

10. If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no-one to help him up!

11. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?

12. Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Ruth 1:16

16And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

Song of Solomon 3:4

I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go

Genesis 2:18-24

And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to 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 a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Song of Solomon 2:8-17:

The voice of my beloved!

Behold, he comes

Leaping upon the mountains,

Skipping upon the hills.

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.

Behold, he stands behind our wall;

He is looking through the windows,

Gazing through the lattice.

My beloved spoke, and said to 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 time of singing has come,

And the voice of the turtledove

Is heard in our land.

The fig tree puts forth her green figs,

And the vines with the tender grapes

Give a good smell.

Rise up, my love, my fair one,

And come away!

“O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,

In the secret places of the cliff,

Let me see your face,

Let me hear your voice;

For your voice is sweet,

And your face is lovely.”

Catch us the foxes,

The little foxes that spoil the vines,

For our vines have tender grapes.

My beloved is mine, and I am his.

He feeds his flock among the lilies.

Until the day breaks

And the shadows flee away,

Turn, my beloved,

And be like a gazelle

Or a young stag

Upon the mountains of Bethel

Answer 3

The book of Ruth has been shared at some weddings I've been too...It was about her commitment... Chap. 1 v. 16

Eph. chapter 5

Answer 4

Here's what we did at our wedding. I think it's great!

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

9 Two are better than one,

       because they have a good return for their work:

10 If one falls down,

       his friend can help him up.

       But pity the man who falls

       and has no one to help him up!

11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.

       But how can one keep warm alone?

12 Though one may be overpowered,

       two can defend themselves.

       A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Answer 5

Ephesians 5:22-28

22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.