11 Bible Verses about Healthy Marriages
Most Relevant Verses
Now these three remain:
faith, hope, and love.
But the greatest of these is love.
Do nothing out of rivalry or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves. Everyone should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.
I command the married—not I, but the Lord—a wife is not to leave her husband. But if she does leave, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband—and a husband is not to leave his wife.
Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.
Your beauty should not consist of outward things like elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold ornaments or fine clothes. Instead, it should consist of what is inside the heart with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very valuable in God’s eyes.
“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another.
and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.
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- Healthy (59 instances)
- Marriages (3 instances)