21 Bible Verses About Marriage to Help You Have a Happier Marriage
Marriage is the beginning of a couple’s new life. We are all hoping that we can have a perfect, happy marriage life. But in reality, we are facing many issues and difficulties in our marriage life. For example, because of different personalities, preferences, and different views on things, quarrels, complaints, and misunderstandings often occur in marriages, even leading to estrangement and betrayal. This brings marital crisis and hurts both husbands and wives. So, how should we approach our marriage properly? Bible verses about marriage below will tell you how to sustain a good marriage relationship, how to approach marriage life properly, and so on, so you will know how to manage your marriage.
1. The Origin of Marriage
Bible Verses for Reference:
Genesis 2:18
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall join to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matthew 19:6
Why they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.
2. Marriage Requires Mutual Understanding
Bible Verses for Reference:
Matthew 6:14
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Luke 6:41
And why behold you the mote that is in your brother’s eye, but perceive not the beam that is in your own eye?
1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.
Matthew 11:29
Take My yoke on you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest to your souls.
Ephesians 4:2–3
With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
3. Couples Should Encourage Each Other in Hard Times
Bible Verses for Reference:
Genesis 2:18
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Ecclesiastes 4:9–12
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Proverbs 18:22
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD.
4. Put Aside Suspicions
Bible Verses for Reference:
Amos 3:3
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Psalm 85:10
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
1 John 3:18
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 Peter 3:8
Finally, be you all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brothers, be pitiful, be courteous.
5. Rely on God to Avoid Temptation
Bible Verses for Reference:
1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Zechariah 4:6
This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, said the LORD of hosts.
Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.