11 Bible Verses about Healthy Marriages

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love.

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves -- each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband: but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

whose adorning -- let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments, but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

'A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;