Bible Verses About Marriage
Every marriage passes through seasons of difficulty โ miscommunication, unmet expectations, emotional distance, or outright conflict can make you wonder if love has died. The daily grind of life together tests even the strongest commitment. But God designed marriage as a covenant that reflects His own faithful love, and He provides grace for the hard seasons. These passages offer wisdom for rebuilding trust, patience for slow healing, and hope that God can restore what feels broken beyond repair.
Key Verses About Marriage
Love Is Patient and Kind
1 Corinthians 13:4-74 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Paul's instruction to bear with one another in love provides a practical framework for navigating the inevitable difficulties of marriage.
Husbands Love Your Wives
Ephesians 5:25-2825 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Husbands Love Your Wives offers biblical truth for the situation of marriage struggles. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.
What God Has Joined Together
Matthew 19:4-64 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
What God Has Joined Together offers biblical truth for the situation of marriage struggles. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.
Two Are Better Than One
Ecclesiastes 4:9-129 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? 12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Two Are Better Than One offers biblical truth for the situation of marriage struggles. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.
Bear with One Another in Love
Ephesians 4:2-32 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Bear with One Another in Love offers biblical truth for the situation of marriage struggles. The verse points us to God's character and invites trust in the midst of real life.
More Bible Verses About Marriage
"If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish."
"Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready."
"And Sarai Abramโs wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife."
"They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God."
"This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;"
"And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife."
"And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;"
"Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance."
"If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husbandโs brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husbandโs brother unto her."
"And if the man like not to take his brotherโs wife, then let his brotherโs wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husbandโs brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husbandโs brother."
"When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:"
"And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samsonโs wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy fatherโs house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?"
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