According to the Bible, How Are You Actually Married in God’s Eyes? Sex? Ceremony? License?

Hebrews 13:4

Over the years, I’ve often been presented with the question, “I had sex with someone, so are we now married in God’s eyes?” Similarly, I’ve also been asked, “Aren’t marriage ceremonies and marriage certificates simply man-made ideas? Can’t two people just commit themselves before God and be married in God’s eyes?”

4 Reasons God Will Not Let You Marry the Wrong Person

Proverbs 16:9

Is it possible to marry the wrong person? From a human point of view, of course it’s possible. In other words, many people will get married, be miserable, and come to feel they should never have married that person in the first place. And from a biblical perspective, there will be some truth to that feeling if they did marry someone that the Bible warned them not to marry.