The best Bible verses for short for weddings include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for short for weddings, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"We love because he first loved us."1 John 4:19
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud."1 Corinthians 13:4
"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her"Ephesians 5:25
"And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."Colossians 3:14
"Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken."Ecclesiastes 4:12
"Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart."Proverbs 3:3
"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."Genesis 2:24
"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."Song of Solomon 8:7
"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."Ruth 1:16
Length decides almost everything here. A verse that reads beautifully on a page can be unreadable once it is set in a small typeface, wrapped around a curve, or cropped to a square. The 15 verses below were chosen for brevity first — most run under a dozen words — so they stay legible at the size you will actually use them.
Self-contained meaning matters just as much. "Do not be anxious about anything" carries its full sense alone; a verse that opens with "Therefore" or "But" does not, and it will read as a fragment to anyone who encounters it without the surrounding passage. Every verse here stands on its own.
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The most-cited Bible verses for short for weddings are 1 John 4:19, Mark 10:9, 1 Corinthians 13:7. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to short for weddings across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for short for weddings, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.