Bible Verses About Marriage Problems
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marriage problems, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,890 votes, led by 1 Peter 3:7. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Marriage Problems
1 Peter 3:7189 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.
James 5:16186 votes
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
1 Corinthians 7:2-5154 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Hebrews 13:4144 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Proverbs 10:12124 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Ephesians 5:25121 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Proverbs 3:1-35109 votes
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Matthew 19:4-6100 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,
Ephesians 4:31-3298 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
1 Corinthians 7:12-1692 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.
Ephesians 5:3383 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.
1 Peter 3:179 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;
Romans 14:1-2370 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Acts 8:2268 votes
Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
Matthew 5:3258 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.
Romans 7:258 votes
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Ephesians 5:22-2458 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Hebrews 13:1-2553 votes
Let brotherly love continue.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4052 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Matthew 19:950 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.
Genesis 2:1847 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.
Malachi 2:1646 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.
Acts 5:2941 votes
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Ecclesiastes 9:939 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.
Ephesians 5:22-3339 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
What does the Bible say about marriage problems?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 3:7 on the subject of marriage problems. Across 3,890 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including James 5:16, 1 Corinthians 7:2-5, Hebrews 13:4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.