Bible Verses About Struggles within Marriage

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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.

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, 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.

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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.

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

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.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

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;

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.

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.

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

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?

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

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:

There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.