70 Bible Verses About Marriage for Christian Couples
Marriage is a remarkable union between a man and a woman. It is a covenant of love, trust, and commitment to a lifelong journey. To begin this journey of creating a deep, lasting bond with your partners, lean on the timeless source of wisdom that the Bible provides.
In this article, we’ll explore a few Bible verses about marriage. These verses talk about different aspects of married life, like love, communication, respect, forgiveness, and the divine purpose of this sacred institution.
As you read these marriage verses, reflect on them and consider how they can positively affect your marriage regardless of where you are on your marital journey. Whether you’re an intending couple, newly wed, a couple that’s weathering marital storms or celebrating decades of shared memories, these verses will offer you the requisite wisdom to make your relationship joyful.
70 Bible Verses On Marriage
These Bible verses provide insights and guidance on various aspects of marriage, highlighting the importance of love, commitment, respect, and unity between spouses. They include;
Genesis 2:24:
“Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
Proverbs 18:22:
“He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.”
Ephesians 5:22
“Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.”
Ephesians 5:25
“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”
1 Corinthians 7:3
“The husband should give his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.”
1 Corinthians 7:4
“For the wife does not have authority over her body, but the husband does. Likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.”
Colossians 3:18-19
“Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.”
Matthew 19:6
“So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Hebrews 13:4
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”
Proverbs 12:4
“An excellent wife is her husband’s crown, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.”
Proverbs 19:14
“House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.”
Mark 10:9
“What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
1 Peter 3:7
“Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel since they are heirs with you of the grace of life so that your prayers may not be hindered.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
“Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
Proverbs 31:10
“An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.”
Genesis 1:27-28
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
Song of Solomon 8:6
“Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.”
Proverbs 31:30
“Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”
Romans 12:10
“Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.”
Matthew 19:4-6
“He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.'”
Proverbs 14:1
“The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.”
Ephesians 4:2-3
“With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
1 Corinthians 13:13
“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
Proverbs 31:11″The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.”
Genesis 1:28
“And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
1 John 4:7-8
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
Matthew 19:5
“And said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?”
Song of Solomon 2:16
“My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.”
Colossians 3:14
“And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”
Proverbs 21:9
“It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.”
1 Peter 4:8
“Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”
Malachi 2:14
“But you say, ‘Why does he not?’ Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.”
Ephesians 4:32
“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”
Ecclesiastes 9:9
“Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.”
1 Corinthians 7:10-11
“To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord)the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.”
Matthew 5:32
“But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”
Proverbs 31:28
“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.”
1 Corinthians 7:2
“But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.”
Matthew 22:37-39
“And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like itYou shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Ephesians 5:28
“In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.”
Proverbs 5:18-19
“Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9
“Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their toil.”
Proverbs 31:26
“She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.”
1 Corinthians 7:12-14
“To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.”
Ecclesiastes 4:12
“And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
Proverbs 31:29
“Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”
1 Peter 3:1
“Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives.”
Ephesians 5:33
“However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
Proverbs 31:12
“She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.”
Song of Solomon 3:4
“Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.”
1 Corinthians 7:39
“A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 11:11
“Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman.”
Song of Solomon 8:7
“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.”
Proverbs 5:15-18
“Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.”
Proverbs 19:14
“House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 11:3
“But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.”
Matthew 19:9
“And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Proverbs 18:22
“He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.”
Colossians 3:19
“Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.”
1 Peter 3:1-2
“Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.”
1 Corinthians 16:14
“Let all that you do be done in love.”
Proverbs 14:1
“The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.”
Mark 10:7-9
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Proverbs 31:25
“Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.”
Ephesians 5:33
“However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
Colossians 3:21
“Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”
Ecclesiastes 4:10
“For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!”
Matthew 19:4-5
“He answered, ‘Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?”
Proverbs 31:23
“Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.”
Conclusion
These verses remind us of the timeless principles that underpin a strong and flourishing union. As we reflect on the love, commitment, respect, and forgiveness emphasized in these verses, may we apply them to our own lives and relationships.
Let us cherish the divine wisdom encapsulated in these words, allowing them to shape our marriages and inspire us to walk the path of lasting love.
