Bible Verses About Marital Situations
This collection includes 50 passages about Marital Situations. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
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His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another manβs wife.
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;
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
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.
Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
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.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
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