Bible Verses About Trouble in Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for trouble in marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,477 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 Trouble in Marriage
1 Peter 3:7204 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 3:19198 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Hebrews 13:4193 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40185 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Psalms 37:5170 votes
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
1 Peter 3:1169 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;
1 Peter 5:7163 votes
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Proverbs 10:12158 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13158 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 5:25153 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:28151 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12144 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
John 14:1141 votes
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
1 Corinthians 7:12-16120 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.
Malachi 2:16106 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.
John 14:2798 votes
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Ephesians 5:3388 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 5:3179 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.
Ephesians 5:22-2473 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Matthew 5:3272 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 19:966 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.
2 Corinthians 4:8-959 votes
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Acts 20:3553 votes
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Psalms 23:1-652 votes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Romans 15:1345 votes
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
What does the Bible say about trouble in marriage?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 3:7 on the subject of trouble in marriage. Across 4,477 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:19, Hebrews 13:4, 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.