16 Bible Verses to Read Together While You Are Engaged, and When to Use Each One



  • This page is arranged for reading aloud, by two people, in the order an engagement actually goes: the evening it happened, the planning arguments, the quiet fortnight, the night before.
  • Song of Solomon 8:6 asks to be a seal — pressed into wax to mark ownership and make a promise binding, which is what a ring has always been for.
  • Nehemiah 8:10 attaches an instruction to the celebration: send some of it to whoever has nothing prepared.
  • 1 Corinthians 13:7’s “believes all things” describes taking the other person’s account at face value before the evidence arrives, which is what trust costs.
  • Genesis 2:24 puts leaving first, which is where most of the difficulty of the first years is stored.

This page is arranged for reading aloud, by two people, in the order an engagement actually goes. What betrothal was, and why Scripture treats it as binding, is a separate question we have answered elsewhere. Here the passages are sorted by occasion instead — the evening it happened, the argument about the venue, the fortnight one of you goes quiet, the night before. Sixteen of them, each with a note on when it is worth saying out loud. The evening…

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