What Does the Bible Say About Strong Marriage?

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 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; ...

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

2 Peter 1:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, ...

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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.

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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.

Luke 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. ...

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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,

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake. ...

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ...

Romans 7:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.

Matthew 19:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

Malachi 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Proverbs 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

24 Bible Verses about Strong Marriage

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Matthew 19:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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24 Bible Verses about Strong Marriage

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1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Matthew 19:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes