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Scriptures for Marriage

Ecclesiastes 9:9 

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love.

 

Proverbs 17:22 

A joyful heart is good medicine.

 

Ecclesiastes 3:12 

I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.

 

James 1:19-20 

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

 

Proverbs 15:1 

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

 

Proverbs 15:18 

A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.

 

Ephesians 4:26 

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.

 

Jeremiah 29:11 

For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

 

Joshua 1:9 

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.

 

Isaiah 43:19 

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

 

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

 

Colossians 3:12-13 

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

 

John 13:34-35 

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

 

Romans 12:10 

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

 

2 Corinthians 13:11 

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

 

Ephesians 4:2 

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

 

1 Peter 3:8 

Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.

 

Psalm 133:1 

How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!

 

Ephesians 6:1-4

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother, so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

 

Ephesians 4:32 

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

 

Ephesians 5:22-33 

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church-- for we are members of his body. "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

 

Matthew 19:6 

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.

 

Matthew 25:36 

I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.

 

James 1:17 

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

 

1 Peter 4:10 

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.

 

Philippians 4:6-7

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

 

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.

 

Ephesians 2:4-5  

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

 

1 Peter 5:6-7 

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

 

John 14:27 

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

 

Romans 12:2 

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

 

Corinthians 3:18 

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

 

1 Peter 1:22 

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.

 

1 Thessalonians 5:11 

Therefore encourage one another and build up one another; just as you also are doing. 

 

Ephesians 5:25 

Husbands are to love their wives in the same manner that Christ loved the church: to the point of personal sacrifice if necessary.

 

Proverbs 3:5-6 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

 

Proverbs 12:22 

The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy.

 

2 Timothy 2:22  

Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

 

Ecclesiastes 4:12 

A three strand cord is not quickly torn apart.

 

2 Corinthians 1:4 

 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

 

Psalm 71:20 

Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.

 

Matthew 6:34 

Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

 

John 16:33 

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.

 

Proverbs 3:3 

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

 

Proverbs 10:12 

Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.

 

Proverbs 17:17 

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

 

Job 8:7 

Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.

 

Ezekiel 36:26 

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

 

Luke 1:78-79 

A new day will dawn on us from above because our God is loving and merciful. He will give light to those who live in the dark and in death’s shadow. He will guide us into the way of peace.

 

Ephesians 4:1-3 

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

 

2 Timothy 1:7 

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

 

Psalm 23:4 

Even though I walk    through the darkest valley, ]I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff,   they comfort me.

 

Matthew 5:9 

Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God.

 

Colossians 3:15

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace.

 

Jeremiah 29:7 

Seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.

 

Psalm 46:10

Be still, and know that I am God.

 

I Corinthians 13:7 

[Love] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 

Song of Solomon 8:7 

Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away.

 

Revelation 2:4-5 

Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.

 

Matthew 6:14-15 

For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

 

Jeremiah 31:34 

No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

 

Romans 12:19-21 

Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay, ”says the Lord. On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

 

2 Corinthians 12:9 

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

 

Psalm 34:14 

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

 

Romans 12:9 

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

 

Hebrews 12:14 

Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

 

Genesis 2:24

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

 

Galatians 6:1 

Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you may also be tempted.

 

Matthew 18:15 

If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

 

Galatians 3:26-28

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

 

1 Corinthians 12:27

Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

 

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

 

Ephesians 4:22 

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

 

Ephesians 5:33

However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

 

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

 

Ephesians 6:1-4

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and 

mother, so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the  

discipline and instruction of the Lord.

 

Ephesians 4:32

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as  God in Christ forgave you.

  

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

 

Philippians 4:11-13

I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

 

Ecclesiastes 4:9-11

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?

 

Romans 12:10 

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

 

2 Corinthians 5:17-19

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

 

Genesis 2:22-24

Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.  The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman, ' for she was taken out of man."  For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

 

Ephesians 5:31-33 

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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