Bible Verses About Marriage Troubles
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marriage troubles, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,213 votes, led by Proverbs 3:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Marriage Troubles
Proverbs 3:5180 votes
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
1 Peter 3:7164 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.
Colossians 3:19159 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40154 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Proverbs 10:12133 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Hebrews 13:4107 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Romans 8:28106 votes
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Matthew 19:6102 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Romans 5:1-5101 votes
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Proverbs 18:2290 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:12-1684 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.
Matthew 19:979 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.
1 Corinthians 7:10-1179 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
1 Peter 3:177 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 5:2874 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 5:3374 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.
Ecclesiastes 9:960 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 5:22-2459 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:2558 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:3156 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.
Proverbs 3:655 votes
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-1855 votes
Rejoice evermore.
1 Corinthians 7:2-550 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Proverbs 12:447 votes
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
1 Corinthians 13:1-1347 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.
What does the Bible say about marriage troubles?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 3:5 on the subject of marriage troubles. Across 3,213 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:7, Colossians 3:19, 1 Corinthians 7:1-40. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.