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14 Bible Verses for Marriage
Marriage is God's idea, a covenant meant to reflect Christ's faithful love. When it is hard, His Word gives both a high calling and deep grace.
What the Bible says about marriage
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Genesis 2:24
Marriage is a leaving and a cleaving, two lives becoming one before God.
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind... beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
1 Corinthians 13:4,7
The love that holds a marriage is patient, kind, and refuses to give up.
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.”
Ephesians 5:25
The measure of a husband's love is Christ's self-giving, not his feelings.
“Two are better than one... for if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
Marriage is God's gift of a companion to lift you when you fall.
“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
Matthew 19:6
God takes the joining seriously, and He is invested in your covenant.
“Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”
Ephesians 5:33
Paul sums up marriage as a husband loving his wife and a wife reverencing her husband.
“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”
Colossians 3:19
Husbands are commanded to love their wives and not to be bitter against them.
“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.”
Proverbs 18:22
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all and the bed undefiled, a covenant God himself guards.
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”
1 Peter 3:7
Husbands are to dwell with their wives in understanding and honour so their prayers are not hindered.
“This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”
Ephesians 5:32
Marriage is a great mystery that pictures the love between Christ and his church.
“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”
Ephesians 5:23
The husband is head of the wife as Christ is head of the church, whom he saved and loves.
“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.”
Song of Solomon 8:7
Many waters cannot quench love, picturing a covenant bond stronger than every trial.
“Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.”
Ecclesiastes 9:9
The preacher counsels us to live joyfully with the spouse we love through all our days.
A prayer for marriage
Father, thank You for the gift and the weight of marriage. Where we are weary or wounded, pour in Your grace. Teach us to love as You love, patiently, kindly, sacrificially. Soften what has hardened. Rekindle what has cooled. Bind us together, and to You, and let our marriage point to Christ. In Jesus' name, amen.
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- What Bible verses are good for marriage?
- 1 Corinthians 13, Ephesians 5:25-33, and Genesis 2:24 are foundational marriage passages on love, sacrifice, and covenant.
- What does the Bible say about a difficult marriage?
- Scripture calls spouses to patient, sacrificial love (1 Corinthians 13, Ephesians 5), to forgive, and to seek God together. It treats the covenant as worth fighting for.
- How can God help my marriage?
- Through His grace, His Word, prayer together, forgiveness, and a community that supports you. God is deeply invested in the covenant He joined.
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