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21 Bible Verses About Marriage to Help You Have a Happier Marriage

Marriage is the beginning of a couple’s new life. We are all hoping that we can have a perfect, happy marriage life. But in reality, we are facing many issues and difficulties in our marriage life. For example, because of different personalities, preferences, and different views on things, quarrels, complaints, and misunderstandings often occur in marriages, even leading to estrangement and betrayal. This brings marital crisis and hurts both husbands and wives. So, how should we approach our marriage properly? Bible verses about marriage below will tell you how to sustain a good marriage relationship, how to approach marriage life properly, and so on, so you will know how to manage your marriage.

1. The Origin of Marriage

Bible Verses for Reference:

Genesis 2:18

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

Genesis 2:24

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

Matthew 19:6

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

Relevant Words of God:

When one becomes independent, one begins one’s own journey in life, which leads one, step by step, toward the people, events, and things that have a connection to one’s marriage. At the same time, the other person who will be in that marriage is approaching, step by step, toward those same people, events, and things. Under the Creator’s sovereignty, two unrelated people with related fates gradually enter into a single marriage and become, miraculously, a family: “two locusts clinging to the same rope.” So, when one enters into a marriage, one’s journey in life will influence and touch upon one’s other half, and likewise one’s partner’s journey in life will influence and touch upon one’s own fate in life. In other words, human fates are interconnected, and no one can complete one’s mission in life or perform one’s role in complete independence from others. One’s birth has a bearing on a huge chain of relationships; growing up also involves a complex chain of relationships; and similarly, a marriage inevitably exists and is maintained within a vast and complex web of human connections, involving every member of that web and influencing the fate of everyone who is a part of it. A marriage is not the product of both members’ families, the circumstances in which they grew up, their appearances, their ages, their qualities, their talents, or any other factors; rather, it arises from a shared mission and a related fate. This is the origin of marriage, a product of human fate orchestrated and arranged by the Creator.

—The Word, Vol. 2. On Knowing God. God Himself, the Unique III

2. Marriage Requires Mutual Understanding

Bible Verses for Reference:

Matthew 6:14

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Luke 6:41

And why behold you the mote that is in your brother's eye, but perceive not the beam that is in your own eye?

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.

Matthew 11:29

Take My yoke on you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest to your souls.

Ephesians 4:2–3

With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Ephesians 5:33

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

3. Couples Should Encourage Each Other in Hard Times

Bible Verses for Reference:

Genesis 2:18

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

Ecclesiastes 4:9–12

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Proverbs 18:22

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

4. Put Aside Suspicions

Bible Verses for Reference:

Amos 3:3

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Psalm 85:10

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

1 John 3:18

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

1 Peter 3:8

Finally, be you all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brothers, be pitiful, be courteous.

5. Rely on God to Avoid Temptation

Bible Verses for Reference:

1 Peter 3:7

Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

Hebrews 13:4

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

Zechariah 4:6

This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, said the LORD of hosts.

Matthew 26:41

Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Relevant Words of God:

These trends arise one after another, and they all carry an evil influence that continually debases mankind, causing people to lose conscience, humanity and reason, weakening their morals and their quality of character ever more, to the extent that we can even say that the majority of people now have no integrity, no humanity, and neither do they have any conscience, much less any reason.

—The Word, Vol. 2. On Knowing God. God Himself, the Unique VI

What aspects of man does Satan use each of these trends to corrupt? Satan chiefly corrupts man’s conscience, sense, humanity, morals, and life perspectives. And do these social trends not gradually degrade and corrupt people? Satan uses these social trends to lure people one step at a time into a nest of devils, so that people caught up in social trends unknowingly advocate money and material desires, wickedness and violence. Once these things have entered the heart of man, what then does man become? Man becomes the devil, Satan! Why? Because, what psychological inclination exists in the heart of man? What does man revere? Man begins to take pleasure in wickedness and violence, showing no love for beauty or goodness, much less peace. People are not willing to live the simple life of normal humanity, but instead wish to enjoy high status and great wealth, to revel in the pleasures of the flesh, sparing no effort to satisfy their own flesh, with no restrictions, no bonds to hold them back; in other words, doing whatever they desire.

—The Word, Vol. 2. On Knowing God. God Himself, the Unique VI

Because the essence of God is holy, that means that only through God can you walk through life on the righteous path of light; only through God can you know the meaning of life; only through God can you live out real humanity and both possess and know the truth. Only through God can you obtain life from the truth. Only God Himself can help you shun evil and deliver you from the harm and control of Satan. Besides God, no one and nothing can save you from the sea of suffering so that you suffer no longer. This is determined by the essence of God. Only God Himself saves you so selflessly; only God is ultimately responsible for your future, for your destiny and for your life, and He arranges all things for you. This is something that nothing created or non-created can achieve. Because nothing created or non-created possesses an essence like the essence of God, no person or thing has the ability to save you or to lead you. This is the importance of God’s essence to man.

—The Word, Vol. 2. On Knowing God. God Himself, the Unique VI

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