Many good marriages slip into crisis because we don’t or won’t believe how much work it takes to keep relationships humming at optimal levels. Another reason is a simple failure in imagination.
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. | Romans 8:28
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. | Acts 4:12
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. | John 13:34
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. | John 1:14
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. | Mark 16:15
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. | Proverbs 31:10
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. | Joshua 24:15
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. | Acts 5:29
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. | Romans 5:8
But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. | Matthew 6:15
Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. | Psalm 40:4-5
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. | Philippians 2:3
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. | John 3:16
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. | Ephesians 5:33
He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery. | Matthew 19:8-9
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you. | Psalm 32:8-9
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. | Hebrews 10:22-23
Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. | Genesis 9:20
Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. | Psalm 20:7
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. | Ephesians 5:21
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels. Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes. | Psalm 81:12-14
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. | 2 Corinthians 5:17
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
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | John 15:12
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him. | Isaiah 30:18
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. | Ephesians 5:22
Life is hard, and a married couple will face many hardships and challenges in their time together. God is faithful, however, and his word is full of wisdom and counseling that can alleviate the struggles a couple will go through.