Marriage Troubles

Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding:

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

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

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

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

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

Rejoice always; — read the full passage →

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths.

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee.

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her:

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →

And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him. — read the full passage →

and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — read the full passage →

This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; — read the full passage →

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? — read the full passage →

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

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

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: — read the full passage →

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

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

But after certain days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

And in the house the disciples asked him again of this matter. — read the full passage →

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; — read the full passage →

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →

My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I speak the things which I have made touching the king: My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. — read the full passage →

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, namely, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →

But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter, if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: — read the full passage →

And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find? — read the full passage →

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.