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What does the Bible say about a healthy marriage?
18 verses about a healthy marriage, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.
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Bible verses about a healthy marriage
- Hebrews 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 7 votes
- Genesis 2:24 — Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 5 votes
- Colossians 3:18 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. 4 votes
- Colossians 3:19 — Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. 4 votes
- Proverbs 31:10 — Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. 3 votes
- 1 Corinthians 7:10 — And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 3 votes
- Ephesians 5:22 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 3 votes
- Ephesians 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 3 votes
- Genesis 3:16 — Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 2 votes
- Exodus 20:14 — Thou shalt not commit adultery. 2 votes
- Proverbs 5:15 — Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 2 votes
- Proverbs 18:22 — Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. 2 votes
- Luke 16:18 — Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery. 2 votes
- 1 Corinthians 7:32 — But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 2 votes
- 1 Corinthians 13:4 — Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 2 votes
- Ephesians 5:21 — Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 2 votes
- Ephesians 5:31 — For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 2 votes
- 1 Peter 3:1 — Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2 votes
Where these verses are
Ephesians (4), Proverbs (3), 1 Corinthians (3), Genesis (2), Colossians (2), Exodus (1), Luke (1), Hebrews (1), 1 Peter (1)
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Topical Bible data by OpenBible.info (https://www.openbible.info/topics/), CC BY 4.0. Votes reflect how many readers judged each verse relevant; they are not a doctrinal ranking. Verse text: King James Version.