Love & Relationships
Bible Verses About unhappy marriages
16 key scriptures
What does the Bible say about unhappy marriages? Browse 16 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.
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| Translation | Key Verse: Hebrews 13:4 |
|---|---|
| King James (KJV) | “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” |
16 Key Scriptures
“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
Hebrews 13:4KJV
“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. to peace: Gr. in peace”
“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 3:7KJV
“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 3:1KJV
“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
“Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”
“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 19:9KJV
“Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
Matthew 19:6KJV
“And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:”
“James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.”
James 1:1KJV
“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. that he: or, if he hate her, put her away putting: Heb. to put away”
Malachi 2:16KJV
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Genesis 2:24KJV
“Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;”
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
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