11 Bible Verses about Healthy Marriages
Most Relevant Verses
And now remain faith, hope, love, these three, but the greater of these is love.
in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves. Look ye out (each man) not to things of yourselves, but each man also to the things of others.
Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband. But even if she separates, she shall 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. Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body.
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and {the two (LXX/NT)} shall be one flesh.
Of which let it not be the outward world of braiding of hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on apparel, but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible, of the meek and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
A new commandment I give to you, that ye should love each other, just as I loved you, so that ye also should love each other.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.