Bible Verses About A Healthy Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for a healthy marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,015 votes, led by Hebrews 13:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about A Healthy Marriage
Hebrews 13:4493 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Genesis 2:24343 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Colossians 3:19274 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Colossians 3:18255 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Ephesians 5:25-29231 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Corinthians 7:10-11220 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Ephesians 5:22-23212 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Proverbs 31:10-31190 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Colossians 3:18-19174 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
1 Peter 3:1-6171 votes
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;
Genesis 3:16154 votes
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.
Luke 16:18150 votes
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7143 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Ephesians 5:21142 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Proverbs 5:15-19141 votes
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Exodus 20:14139 votes
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Proverbs 18:22138 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:32-34133 votes
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:
Ephesians 5:22-33124 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:31-32117 votes
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.
1 Peter 3:1-7117 votes
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;
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12112 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
1 Corinthians 7:3108 votes
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Ephesians 4:2-397 votes
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Genesis 2:1896 votes
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
What does the Bible say about a healthy marriage?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of a healthy marriage. Across 7,015 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 2:24, Colossians 3:19, Colossians 3:18. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.