13 Bible Verses About Saving a Marriage

For a marriage under strain, Scripture asks for reconciliation, forgiveness and confession. Paul tells a wife who has already separated to “remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband” (1 Corinthians 7:11). Jesus tells Peter to forgive a brother not seven times but seventy-seven (Matthew 18:21-22), and James tells believers to “confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed” (James 5:16). The other passages below set out how a husband and…