40 Bible Verses For Married Couples

God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the Garden of Eden as the first married couple. Marriage is ordained and established by God, and He includes keys to a happy marriage in the Bible.

And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also, | Acts 17:6

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. | Acts 2:38

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery. | Matthew 19:9

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. | 1 Corinthians 7:39

Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken. | Ecclesiastes 4:11-12

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. | Proverbs 31:10

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. | Proverbs 12:4

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness. | 2 Timothy 3:16

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. | 1 Corinthians 7:9

But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith. | 1 Timothy 5:11-12

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. | 1 Corinthians 7:2

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. | Romans 13:14

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. | Matthew 5:28

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. | Ephesians 5:3

Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. | Philippians 2:2

Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned? | Proverbs 6:27

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun. | Ecclesiastes 9:9

Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. | Luke 16:18

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. | Romans 1:26-27

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. | 1 Corinthians 6:18

He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied. | Acts 21:9

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord. | Proverbs 19:14

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. | Proverbs 18:22

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. | Ephesians 5:33

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. | Ephesians 4:1-3

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. | Ephesians 4:31-32

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. | Proverbs 5:18-19

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. | Hebrews 13:4

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. | 1 Peter 3:7

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman. | 1 Corinthians 7:1

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, The two will become one flesh. | 1 Corinthians 6:16

So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. | Matthew 19:6

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. | Genesis 2:24

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” | Genesis 2:18

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. | 1 Corinthians 7:10-11

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach. | 1 Timothy 3:2

To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. | Titus 2:5

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. | Colossians 3:18-19

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. | Ephesians 5:22

What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. | Mark 10:9

For a marriage to be happy and successful for life, the husband and wife must include God as a partner in their marriage. They must acknowledge God as Supreme in their lives and together yield to what God instructs in the Bible about marriage. The marriage will fail if it is based on self-gratification and pleasure.