20 Bible Verses for a Wedding Anniversary, Including Ones for a Hard Year

  • The verses give thanks for the years, recall what was promised, describe love in practical terms, and speak to a year that was hard.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:18 says give thanks in all circumstances, not for them, which lets thanks sit beside a hard year rather than deny it.
  • Malachi 2:15 treats faithfulness as a watch to be kept, and says so to people already married.
  • In 1 Corinthians 13:5, “keeps no record of wrongs” uses an accounting verb, logizomai, meaning to reckon or count.
  • Psalm 128, a pilgrim song, pictures a fruitful vine and olive shoots and ends, “May you live to see your children’s children.”

A wedding anniversary looks back on years that the vows could describe only in general terms: for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health. The twenty verses below give thanks for those years, recall what was promised, describe love in practical terms, and speak to a year that was hard. The last two passages are for the anniversary itself. Giving thanks for the years Psalm 100:4 “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with…

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