Bible Verses About Marital Problems
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marital problems, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 923 votes, led by Ephesians 5:33. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Marital Problems
Ephesians 5:3343 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 19:931 votes
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Proverbs 3:1-3523 votes
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Ephesians 5:2522 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Peter 3:722 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.
Matthew 5:2821 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Proverbs 13:2219 votes
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Luke 14:2819 votes
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Ephesians 5:22-2419 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Proverbs 10:1216 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4016 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 7:2-516 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:12-1616 votes
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
Hebrews 13:416 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Peter 3:116 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;
Ephesians 4:3215 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Proverbs 21:2014 votes
There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
Genesis 2:1813 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.
Proverbs 12:413 votes
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 18:2213 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 9:913 votes
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Malachi 2:1613 votes
For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
Matthew 5:3213 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.
Matthew 19:4-613 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,
Matthew 19:613 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
What does the Bible say about marital problems?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 5:33 on the subject of marital problems. Across 923 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 19:9, Proverbs 3:1-35, Ephesians 5:25. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.