18 Bible Verses for Couples: Love, Respect, Arguments and Daily Life

Christian Pure Team

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Summary

  • In the oldest Greek manuscripts, Ephesians 5:22 has no verb of its own and borrows one from verse 21: “Submit to one another.”
  • 1 Peter 3:7 tells husbands to treat their wives with respect “so that nothing will hinder your prayers.”
  • Galatians 6:2 and 6:5 use different words — a crushing weight that needs help, and a pack a person is expected to carry.
  • 1 Corinthians 7:4 says the same thing of the wife and of the husband: neither has authority over their own body alone.
  • Hebrews 13:4 addresses the congregation rather than the couple: everyone else has a part in how a marriage is treated.

The Bible’s main passages for couples deal with how a husband and wife treat each other: love, respect, patience in disagreement, forgiveness and faithfulness. Paul’s instructions to husbands and wives in Ephesians 5 follow the sentence “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ” (5:21), and in the oldest Greek manuscripts the next verse borrows its verb from it. The eighteen verses below cover that passage, what holds a marriage together, how an argument ends, the daily work, and…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version and the New International Version.

The household passage runs from Ephesians 5:21 to 6:9; the verb of 5:22 is carried over from 5:21 in the earliest manuscripts.

The burden of Galatians 6:2 is baros; the load of Galatians 6:5 is phortion.

The divine name in Song of Solomon 8:6 appears only as the ending of shalhevetyah, the flame of the Lord.

The divorce argument that produces Mark 10:9 begins at Mark 10:2.

Readings for the ceremony are at 16 Bible Verses for a Wedding.

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