43 Best Bible Verses for a Fighting Husband and Wife

Being a Christian married couple can sometimes come with hard times. Just because you are a Christian does not mean you won’t have marital conflicts. Although we might not always know how to respond in the best ways, God’s word gives us a glimpse into how God wants us to treat our spouses. In this article, I will be giving you 43 Bible verses for a fighting husband and wife.

A theme throughout all of these verses is Biblical love. If we love our spouses the way Christ Jesus loves the church, then our marriages will immediately be better. To have a healthy marriage we should model our love for each other by on God’s love for us. For all the married people, today’s post might serve as an opportunity to restart your own marriage. I hope that these verses unveil God’s wisdom to all the Christian couples fighting through tough times.

Bible Verses For a Fighting Husband and Wife

Ephesians 5:33

33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

1 Peter 3:2-6

2 when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. 3 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. 4 Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5 For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, 6 like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.

1 Peter 3:7

7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.

Ephesians 5:25

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Ephesians 5:22

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

Colossians 3:19

19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

Ephesians 5:28-29

28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—

Ephesians 4:32

32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

Mark 11:25

25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”

Ephesians 4:2

2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.-

Romans 12:18

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.-

Romans 14:19

Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.-

Galatians 5:22-23

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness

23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.-

James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.-

James 1:19

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.-

Ecclesiastes 4:12

Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:11

Again, if two lie down together, then they keep warm; but how can one be warm alone?-

1 Corinthians 13:2

If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all things of you be done in love.

Psalm 143:8

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

Genesis 1:27-28

27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

Colossians 3:13

Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.

Matthew 6:14

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Luke 6:37

And do not judge that you should not be judged; and do not condemn that you should not be condemned; forgive and you will be forgiven.

1 John 5:14

Be confident that, if we ask according to His will, He hears us.

Matthew 19:13

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

1 Corinthians 13:7

[Love] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

1 Corinthians 7:10

To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.

Deuteronomy 24:5

If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.

Proverbs 12:4

A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.

Proverbs 20:6-7

Many claim to have unfailing love, but a faithful person who can find? The righteous lead blameless lives; blessed are their children after them.

Proverbs 31:10-12

A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.

Genesis 2:22-24

Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Hebrews 13:4-5

Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”

Hebrews 13:6-7

So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?” Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their

1 Corinthians 13:13

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:4

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

1 Corinthians 13:8

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

Proverbs 15:1

A gentle answer turns away wrath,

But a harsh word stirs up anger.

Ephesians 4:3-6

3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Proverbs 14:29

Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.

Philippians 2:4

Don’t be concerned only about your own interests, but also be concerned about the interests of others.

Closing Thoughts

I hope that these Bible scriptures can help you to be a better biblical husband and wife and that they help you to have a healthy relationship. That they would help you to share a genuine love for one another in a God-honoring way.