Bible Verses About Marriage and Forgiveness
Scriptures on offering grace to your spouse.
A vibrant and lasting union is impossible to sustain without the regular application of profound and continuous grace. We choose to offer forgiveness to our spouses not because they always deserve it, but because we ourselves have been forgiven much by a merciful Savior. By trading resentment for a spirit of reconciliation, you protect the sanctity and joy of your marriage. Trust that the Spirit will provide the strength to let go of offenses and find the healing that comes from a clean heart.
Key Passages
"And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you."
"And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."
"For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment."
"With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;"
"Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye."
"For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:"
"We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves."
"¶ Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him."
"And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors."
"¶ Then said Jesus,Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.And they parted his raiment, and cast lots."
"To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;"
"Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ."
"And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil."
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;"
"Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband."
"Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge."
"Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD."
"And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth."
"Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth."
"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband."
"House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD."
"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
"In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;"
"In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:"
"Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy."
"But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
"¶ Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him,I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven."
"Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:"
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