Marriage Troubles

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who 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 has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

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

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

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

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

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

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

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

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

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

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

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

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, — read the full passage →

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has 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 Yahweh.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

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

In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. — read the full passage →

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

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

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer. — read the full passage →

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put 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 the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: — read the full passage →

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? — read the full passage →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your 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 amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: — read the full passage →

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

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.