A Healthy Marriage
9 passages
- Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Read it in context - Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Read it in context - Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Read it in context - Colossians 3:18
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Read it in context - Ephesians 5:22–23
22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 7:10–11
10To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. 11But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.
Read it in context - Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Read it in context - Luke 16:18
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Read it in context - Exodus 20:14
You shall not commit adultery.
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