17 Great Bible Verses for Building a Stronger Marriage
Marriage, despite what society says, is more than a business contract. Marriage is a covenant between two people and Christ. Even more, it is supposed to be a physical reporesentation of Christ’s relationship with the Church.
If then, marriage is so important, wouldn’t it make sense for the enemy to want to destroy it? Remember, we do not battle against flesh and blood, but against the spiritual forces of evil (Ephesians 6:12).
Your marriage is important. Thankfully, the Lord has given us plenty of wisdom within the Bible that we can use to build and strengthen our marriages. I pray that the Lord uses these Scriptures and softens your heart to understand the wisdom He would like to share with you.
I must add, an abusive marriage is NEVER justified, and I am so sorry if you have found yourself in such a relationship. That was never the Lord’s design for marriage. Get out and get help.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…
-Ephesians 5:25
James 1:19
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger…
-James 1:19
Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
-Ephesians 4:29
Ephesians 5:33
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
-Ephesians 5:33
John 15:12-13
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
-John 15:12-13
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
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 13:4-7
Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
-Psalm 19:14
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
-Genesis 2:24
Matthew 18:21-22
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.
-Matthew 18:21-22
Ephesians 4:32
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
-Ephesians 4:32
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
-Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
Matthew 7:3-5
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
-Matthew 7:3-5
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
-1 Peter 4:8
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
-1 John 4:18
Song of Solomon 8:6
Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm,
for love is strong as death,
jealousy is fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very flame of the Lord.
-Song of Solomon 8:6
Matthew 19:6
So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
-Matthew 19:6
Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.
-Proverbs 15:1
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