15 Beautiful Scriptures and Quotes About The Eternal Nature and Destiny of Marriages and Families

Eternal Marriage

Genesis 2:24

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh”

Mark 10:6-9

“From the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder

1 Peter 3:7

"Husband and wife are “heirs together of the grace of life.”

1 Corinthians 11:11

"Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord"

Elder Holland

"I wouldn't know how to speak about heaven without my wife, my children. It would not be heaven for me. Now, you can say that's wishful thinking. You can say that's just because you love each other, you've gotten cozy hear on earth and you like each other's company. It's a lot more than that. There is something eternal in the statement, 'Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.' That isn't just good sociology. It's theology, it's eternal."

Ephesians 5:30-32

“We are members of his body...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…”

4 Nephi 1:11

"And they were married, and given in marriage, and were blessed according to the multitude of the promises which the Lord had made unto them."

Parly P. Pratt

It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter.

It was from him that I learned that the wife of my bosom might be secured to me for time and all eternity; and that the refined sympathies and affections which endeared us to each other emanated from the fountain of divine eternal love. . . . It was from him that I learned that we might cultivate these affections, and grow and increase in the same to all eternity; while the result of our endless union would be an offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, or the sands of the sea shore. …

I had loved before, but I knew not why. But now I loved—with a pureness—an intensity of elevated, exalted feeling, which would lift my soul from the transitory things of this grovelling sphere and expand it as the ocean.” (PPP, 1985, 259–60.)

Terryl Givens

That a man should cling to his wife and she to him, on the way to becoming “one flesh,” was a pattern and order He established while they were still in paradise. It was not a compensating comfort for their passage through a fallen world, but a sacramental union established in paradise, and anticipating no end.

Elder Whitney Clayton

“Marriage is a promised land like no other. Its opportunities for love, growth, education, refining, and service are without compare. Still, good marriages require real work. The most difficult adversaries ever to appear on any promised land’s horizon - enemies like pride, personal weaknesses, and bad habits - must be vanquished for marriage to prosper. These enemies lurk in our souls and can be very difficult to discern and even harder to defeat. Subduing these foes is the challenge of a lifetime, but “there’s no place like home” to do so and there is no path to the promised land without doing so”

Deidrich Bonhoffer

 “Marriage is more than your love for each other. … In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations, which God causes to come and to pass away to his glory, and calls into his kingdom. In your love you see only the heaven of your own happiness, but in marriage you are placed at a post of responsibility towards the world and mankind. Your love is your own private possession, but marriage is more than something personal—it is a status, an office. Just as it is the crown, and not merely the will to rule, that makes the king, so it is marriage, and not merely your love for each other, that joins you together in the sight of God and man. … So love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God

Elder David A. Bednar
"For divine purposes, male and female spirits are different, distinctive, and complementary...The unique combination of spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional capacities of both males and females were needed to implement the plan of happiness. Alone, neither the man nor the woman could fulfill the purposes of his or her creation...By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fullness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences. The man and the woman contribute differently but equally to a oneness and a unity that can be achieved in no other way. The man completes and perfects the woman and the woman completes and perfects the man as they learn from and mutually strengthen and bless each other. “Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord” (1 Cor. 11:11; italics added)...As a husband and wife are each drawn to the Lord (see 3 Ne. 27:14), as they learn to serve and cherish one another, as they share life experiences and grow together and become one, and as they are blessed through the uniting of their distinctive natures, they begin to realize the fulfillment that our Heavenly Father desires for His children. Ultimate happiness, which is the very object of the Father’s plan, is received through the making and honoring of eternal marriage covenants."

Eternal Families

Terryl Givens

"Heaven will consist of those relationships that matter most to us now...Marriage and family are not conventions of men until only death do us part. They are intended to be made eternal through covenants we make with God. The family is the pattern of heaven." (D&C 131:1-2; 132:5-33)

Terryl Givens

"As our relationships in marriages, families, and friendship teach us, it takes relationships to provide the friction that wears down our rough edges and sanctifies us. And then, and only then, those relationships become the environment in which those perfected virtues are best enjoyed. We need those virtues not just here, but eternally because “the same sociality that exists here, will exist there, only it will be coupled with celestial glory, which glory we do not now enjoy.”

Terryl Givens

"In the New Testament, Christ asked God to bless His disciples with a friendship, a love and a unity that paralleled His own relationship to His Father (John 17, Moses 7). In essence, we are invited to participate in the heavenly family of God Himself. Not through metaphorical melding, but through the studied, arduous practice of a holy life that (invites the grace of Jesus into our lives and) prepares us to love as He does."