Bible verses for a hard season in marriage
Every marriage has stretches where it feels more like work than love. These verses are about patience, about two being better than one, and about what love actually does on an ordinary Tuesday.
“Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.”
Ephesians 4:31-32 “Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous, not rendering evil for evil or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.”
1 Peter 3:8-9 “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 “Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.”
Colossians 3:14
Every verse on this page is from the World English Bible, British Edition, a modern translation in the public domain. Each one is copied exactly from the source, never retyped.
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