healthy marriage
What does the Bible say about healthy marriage? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,
24For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.
3A husband should fulfill his obligation to his wife, and a wife should also act similarly toward her husband.
4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
21Be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
7Similarly, you husbands should live with them in accord with knowledge, bestowing honor on the female as the weaker vessel and as co-heirs of the life of grace, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
18The Lord God also said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself.”
33Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband.
4Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. 5Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. 6Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth. 7Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all.
6And so, now they are not two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate.”
4And he said to them in response, “Have you not read that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female?” And he said: 5“For this reason, a man shall separate from father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife, and these two shall become one flesh. 6And so, now they are not two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate.”
14You shall not commit adultery.