Marriage Troubles

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

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, and be not bitter against them.

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

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

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

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

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. — read the full passage →

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

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.

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;

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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

Wives, submit yourselves 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 for it;

Rejoice evermore. — read the full passage →

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.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

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.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

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? — read the full passage →

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

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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

For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

Wives, submit yourselves 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 the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

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

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

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

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

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

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

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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? — read the full passage →

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is 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 care upon him; for he careth for you.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

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

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with 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 prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

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 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.

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

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

Who can find a virtuous woman? 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.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same 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 to good works: — read the full passage →

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of 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 hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, 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 suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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. — read the full passage →

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

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

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

Thus saith the Lord 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 before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; — read the full passage →

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

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? — read the full passage →

Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall 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 be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.