Bible Verses About Prayers for Marriage
Scriptures to guide intercession for your husband or wife.
Interceding for your spouse is one of the most significant spiritual investments you can make in the health and longevity of your home. Consistent and faithful prayer acts as a divine shield, inviting the protection and blessing of God over every area of your relationship. As you stand in the gap for one another, you will find your hearts becoming more closely knit together in His love. Trust that the Father honors the intercession of a husband or wife who seeks His wisdom for their marriage.
Key Passages
"Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them."
"And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
"¶ The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?"
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;"
"Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered."
"Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband."
"¶ Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant."
"Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband."
"Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered."
"And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also."
"And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee."
"And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house."
"Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord."
"And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive."
"The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer."
"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."
"After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name."
"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God."
"Pray without ceasing."
"Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
"Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."
"And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;"
"Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you."
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