Bible Verses About Healthy Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for healthy marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 220 votes, led by Genesis 2:24. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Healthy Marriage
Genesis 2:2424 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:2524 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Corinthians 7:317 votes
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Ephesians 5:2116 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Hebrews 13:416 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Genesis 2:1815 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.
1 Peter 3:715 votes
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Ephesians 5:3314 votes
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Matthew 19:613 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
1 Corinthians 13:4-713 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Matthew 19:4-612 votes
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Exodus 20:1411 votes
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Matthew 5:3210 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
1 Corinthians 13:1-1310 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Ephesians 5:1-3310 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
What does the Bible say about healthy marriage?
Readers most often cite Genesis 2:24 on the subject of healthy marriage. Across 220 votes, 15 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:25, 1 Corinthians 7:3, Ephesians 5:21. This page lists all 15 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.