Bible Verses About Unhappy Marriages
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for unhappy marriages, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,046 votes, led by Hebrews 13:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Unhappy Marriages
Hebrews 13:478 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:1570 votes
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
1 Peter 3:768 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.
1 Peter 3:160 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;
Proverbs 18:2258 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Ephesians 5:2557 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Corinthians 7:1-4056 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Matthew 19:954 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.
Matthew 19:651 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
1 Corinthians 7:10-1648 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
James 1:1-2746 votes
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Malachi 2:1645 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.
2 Corinthians 6:1442 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Genesis 2:2441 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:1-3341 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Ephesians 5:22-2440 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Romans 7:236 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.
1 Corinthians 13:4-734 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Proverbs 31:1033 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Matthew 5:3130 votes
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Romans 7:329 votes
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
1 Peter 4:828 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Colossians 3:18-1927 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
1 John 2:1-2927 votes
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Genesis 2:1826 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.
What does the Bible say about unhappy marriages?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of unhappy marriages. Across 2,046 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 7:15, 1 Peter 3:7, 1 Peter 3:1. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.