What are the best Bible verses for a wedding?

The most requested wedding passages are 1 Corinthians 13:4 with the verses around it, Genesis 2:24, Ecclesiastes 4:12, and Song of Solomon 8:7. Ruth 1:16 is a beautiful choice for vows because of its promise to stay. For a blessing over the couple, many officiants use Colossians 3:14, which describes love as the bond that holds everything together.

Are there Bible verses for a struggling marriage?

Yes, and they tend to be the everyday ones rather than the romantic ones. 1 Corinthians 13:7 speaks of love that keeps bearing and hoping. Ephesians 4:32 and Colossians 3:13 focus on kindness and forgiveness, which most struggling marriages need daily. 1 Peter 4:8 connects love with covering many wrongs. Reading one of these together, even in a tense week, can lower the temperature.

What does the Bible say a husband and wife owe each other?

Ephesians 5 gives the fullest answer. Husbands are called to love sacrificially, the way Christ loved the church, and Ephesians 5:33 sums the chapter up as love and respect. 1 Peter 3:7 tells husbands to treat their wives with understanding and honor. Underneath the specific instructions, the shared calling is the same: humility, faithfulness, and putting the other person first.

Bible Verses About Marriage

A random verse drawn from 24 passages chosen for this topic.

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

Genesis 2:18KJV

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Drawing from 24 verses

Marriage appears in the Bible's very first chapters. Genesis describes a man and a woman leaving their parents and being joined into a new family, one flesh, and the rest of Scripture keeps returning to that picture.

Jesus pointed straight back to that Genesis passage when He taught about marriage, and He treated the bond as something God Himself puts together. Paul later used marriage as a living picture of Christ and the church.

The practical instruction is just as strong. Husbands are called to a self-giving love, and couples are called to genuine respect, care, and the patience that daily life together requires. None of it is one-sided.

The wisdom books add their own voice. Proverbs, traditionally attributed in large part to Solomon, calls a good spouse a gift from the Lord. Ecclesiastes praises the strength of two over one, and Song of Solomon celebrates romantic love without a hint of embarrassment.

The shuffle tool above draws one marriage verse at a time from this collection. Try a few and note the ones that fit your season.

These verses show up most often around weddings. Couples use them for readings, programs, vows, and toasts, and guests write them in cards. Anniversaries and vow renewals lean on the same passages, and engagement season is a natural time to start collecting favorites.

They matter just as much in ordinary and difficult stretches. Many couples memorize a verse together during a rough patch, pray one over their marriage each morning, or keep one taped to the bathroom mirror.

The Bible is realistic about marriage being work. That is why the kindness, humility, and forgiveness passages belong on this list alongside the romantic ones. Most long marriages are built on those quieter verses.

Shuffle above for a single verse, or read through the full collection at your own pace. Either way, let one verse follow you into the week.

All 24 verses about marriage, in the King James Version

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Genesis 2:18
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Proverbs 18:22
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 19:14
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs 31:10
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Ecclesiastes 4:9
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:12
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Song of Solomon 8:6
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Song of Solomon 8:7
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Matthew 19:6
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Mark 10:9
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians 13:4
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
1 Corinthians 13:7
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:25
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 5:28
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Ephesians 5:33
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Ephesians 4:32
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Colossians 3:14
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Colossians 3:19
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Hebrews 13:4
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1 Peter 3:7
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
Ruth 1:16

Frequently asked questions

What are the best Bible verses for a wedding?: The most requested wedding passages are 1 Corinthians 13:4 with the verses around it, Genesis 2:24, Ecclesiastes 4:12, and Song of Solomon 8:7. Ruth 1:16 is a beautiful choice for vows because of its promise to stay. For a blessing over the couple, many officiants use Colossians 3:14, which describes love as the bond that holds everything together.
Are there Bible verses for a struggling marriage?: Yes, and they tend to be the everyday ones rather than the romantic ones. 1 Corinthians 13:7 speaks of love that keeps bearing and hoping. Ephesians 4:32 and Colossians 3:13 focus on kindness and forgiveness, which most struggling marriages need daily. 1 Peter 4:8 connects love with covering many wrongs. Reading one of these together, even in a tense week, can lower the temperature.
What does the Bible say a husband and wife owe each other?: Ephesians 5 gives the fullest answer. Husbands are called to love sacrificially, the way Christ loved the church, and Ephesians 5:33 sums the chapter up as love and respect. 1 Peter 3:7 tells husbands to treat their wives with understanding and honor. Underneath the specific instructions, the shared calling is the same: humility, faithfulness, and putting the other person first.