20 Bible Verses about

Marriage at Work

1 Samuel 4:19 BSB

Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.

Exodus 1:14 BSB

and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

Proverbs 12:4 BSB

A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.

Ephesians 5:23 BSB

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

Ephesians 5:33 BSB

Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Romans 7:2 BSB

For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

2 Samuel 11:26 BSB

When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.

Ezekiel 16:32 BSB

You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!

1 Corinthians 7:3 BSB

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:10 BSB

To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.

1 Timothy 3:12 BSB

A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.

Numbers 5:29 BSB

This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,

1 Timothy 3:2 BSB

An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Deuteronomy 25:11 BSB

If two men are fighting, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,

Genesis 2:24 BSB

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Ephesians 5:25 BSB

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

1 Corinthians 13:4 BSB

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

Ecclesiastes 4:9 BSB

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.

Colossians 3:14 BSB

And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

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