Bible Verses About Marriage Relationship
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marriage relationship, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 226 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 Relationship
1 Peter 3:724 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 19:4-621 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,
Hebrews 13:421 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Ephesians 5:3320 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.
Ephesians 5:3115 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.
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.
Ephesians 5:22-3313 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Genesis 2:2412 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4012 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Ephesians 4:2-312 votes
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Ephesians 5:2512 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:2211 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Genesis 1:2810 votes
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Mark 10:910 votes
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Romans 7:210 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.
2 Corinthians 6:1410 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
What does the Bible say about marriage relationship?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 3:7 on the subject of marriage relationship. Across 226 votes, 16 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 19:4-6, Hebrews 13:4, Ephesians 5:33. This page lists all 16 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.