20 Bible Verses about

Marriage Through Trials

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,

1 Samuel 25:3 BSB

His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.

Titus 1:6 BSB

An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.