Bible verses about "unhappy marriages" | WPNT

⁹ And I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for fornication, and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries a divorcee commits adultery.”

³¹ It was said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce’.

³ So then, if she should ‘marry’ another man while her husband is living, she will be labeled an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from that law, not being an adulteress if she marries another man.

²² Wives, subordinate yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord, ²³ because a man is head of his wife as also Christ is Head of the Church—He also is Preserver of the body. ²⁴ Yes, just as the Church is subject to Christ, so also the wives should be to their own husbands in everything.

¹ Similarly, wives, be submissive to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the Word, they may be won over, without a word, by the conduct of their wives

¹ My dear children, I am writing these things to you so that you not sin; if someone does sin, we have an Advocate in the Father’s presence, righteous Jesus Christ— ² also, He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; not concerning ours only but also concerning those of the whole world. ³ Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. ⁴ He who says, “I have come to know Him”, yet doesn’t keep His commandments, is a liar and the Truth is not in him. ⁵ But whoever keeps His Word, God’s love has truly been perfected in him: by this we know that we are in Him. ⁶ He who claims to be abiding in Him really needs to act just like He acted. ⁷ Brothers, I am not writing a new commandment to you but an old one that you have had from the beginning; this old commandment is the word that you have heard from the beginning. ⁸ Again, I am writing a new commandment to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining. ⁹ He who claims to be in the Light while hating his brother is in the darkness until now. ¹⁰ He who keeps loving his brother is staying in the Light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. ¹¹ But he who keeps hating his brother is in the darkness and keeps walking in the darkness; he doesn’t know where he’s going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. ¹² Dear children, I am writing to you because your sins have been forgiven for His name’s sake ¹³ —fathers, I am writing to you because you have come to know Him who is from the beginning; young men, I am writing to you because you have overcome the evil one; children, I am writing to you because you have come to know the Father— ¹⁴ fathers, I have written to you because you have come to know Him who is from the beginning; young men, I have written to you because you are strong, and the Word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one. ¹⁵ Do not love the world, neither the things in the world; if anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world—the craving of the flesh and the craving of the eyes and the pretension of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. ¹⁷ The world, with its craving, is passing away, but he who does God’s will remains forever. ¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared, by which we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us but were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us—they left so that they might be exposed, that none of them were of us. ²⁰ You have an Anointing from the Holy One and understand all. ²¹ I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the Truth. ²² Who is the liar but the one denying that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son. ²³ Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father either. ²⁴ So you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you; if what you have heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Father and in the Son. ²⁵ This is the promise that He Himself promised us—the eternal life. ²⁶ I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you; ²⁷ but really, you don’t need anyone to teach you because the Anointing that you received from Him abides in you; further, as the same Anointing teaches you concerning all things, and it is true and no lie—well just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him. ²⁸ And now, dear children, do abide in Him, so that whenever He appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. ²⁹ If you have understood that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been begotten by Him.

¹⁴ Do not enter a mismatch with unbelievers; for what do righteousness and lawlessness have in common? And what fellowship does light have with darkness?

⁷ So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns—who gave themselves up to fornication and went after a different kind of flesh in a manner similar to those angels—stand as an example, undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

⁶ So then, they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God joined together let not man separate!”

² For example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if the man should die, she is released from the law about the husband.

²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up on her behalf,

¹⁰ Now to the married I command (not I but the Lord): a wife is not to be separated from her husband ¹¹ (but if she does separate herself, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband is not to divorce his wife. ¹² But to the rest I (not the Lord) say: if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her. ¹³ And a woman who has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are consecrated. ¹⁵ But if the unbeliever separates, let him separate—in such cases the brother or the sister is not enslaved, but God has called us to peace. ¹⁶ For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

¹ James, a slave of God and of Sovereign Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in the Dispersion: Greetings. ² Count it all joy, my brothers, whenever you fall into various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance; ⁴ but let that endurance have a complete work, so that you may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing. ⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from the giving God, who gives to all liberally and does not reproach, and it will be given to him. ⁶ However, let him ask in faith, with no doubting, because he who doubts is like a sea wave driven and tossed by the wind— ⁷ such a man should not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord, ⁸ being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. ⁹ Now the lowly brother should glory in his high position, ¹⁰ but the rich brother in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of wild grass. ¹¹ For the sun rises with its burning heat and withers the grass, and its flower falls off and the beauty of its face perishes. Just so the rich man will be withered in his undertakings. ¹² A man who endures testing is blessed, because upon becoming approved he will receive the crown of the life that the Lord has promised to those loving Him. ¹³ Let no one, upon being tempted, say, “I am being tempted by God,” because God is untemptable by evil, so He Himself does not tempt anyone. ¹⁴ But each one is tempted by his own craving, being taken in tow and enticed. ¹⁵ Then the craving, upon conceiving, gives birth to sin, and the sin, upon completion, delivers death. ¹⁶ Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers: ¹⁷ every good giving and every perfect gift is from Above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Having willed it, He brought us forth by a word of truth, so that we might be a sort of first fruits of His products. ¹⁹ So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; ²⁰ because a man’s anger does not achieve God’s righteousness. ²¹ Therefore, laying aside all filthiness and overflow of evil, receive with meekness the implanted Word which is able to save your souls. ²² Further, become word doers and not just hearers, deceiving yourselves. ²³ Because if anyone is a law hearer and not a doer, the same is like a man observing his physical face in a mirror; ²⁴ for he observes himself, then goes away and promptly forgets what he’s like. ²⁵ But he who looks carefully into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, he—not being a forgetful hearer but a work doer—he will be blessed in what he does. ²⁶ If anyone among you thinks he is religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, his religion is useless. ²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity; to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

¹⁵ But if the unbeliever separates, let him separate—in such cases the brother or the sister is not enslaved, but God has called us to peace.

¹ Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. ² But because of the fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. ³ Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. ⁴ The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; similarly also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. ⁵ Do not deprive one another except by mutual consent for a season, so that you may devote yourselves to fasting and to prayer, and come together again so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ⁶ Now I say this as a concession, not as a command ⁷ (though I wish that all men were even as I myself; but each has his own gift from God, one like this and one like that). ⁸ Yes I say to the unmarried and the widows: it is good for them if they should remain even as I; ⁹ but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry; since it is better to marry than to burn. ¹⁰ Now to the married I command (not I but the Lord): a wife is not to be separated from her husband ¹¹ (but if she does separate herself, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband is not to divorce his wife. ¹² But to the rest I (not the Lord) say: if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her. ¹³ And a woman who has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are consecrated. ¹⁵ But if the unbeliever separates, let him separate—in such cases the brother or the sister is not enslaved, but God has called us to peace. ¹⁶ For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? ¹⁷ Otherwise, as God has distributed to each, as the Lord has called each one, so let him live (this is what I command in all the congregations). ¹⁸ Was anyone already circumcised when called? Let him not reverse it. Was anyone uncircumcised when called? Let him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, compared to keeping God’s commandments. ²⁰ Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called. ²¹ Were you called while a slave? Don’t let it bother you, but if you can really become free, do so. ²² For the one in the Lord who was called while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Similarly, the one who was called while free is Christ’s slave. ²³ You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men. ²⁴ Brothers, let each one remain with God in the social condition in which he was called. ²⁵ Now about the virgins I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. ²⁶ I consider therefore that this is good because of the current distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is: ²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Have you been released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. ²⁸ However, should you marry, you haven’t sinned; and if a virgin should marry, she hasn’t sinned. Still, such will have trouble in the flesh, and I want to spare you. ²⁹ Now I say this, brothers, the time has been shortened, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, ³⁰ and those who weep as though not weeping, and those who rejoice as though not rejoicing, and those who buy as though not possessing, ³¹ and those who use this world as though not abusing it; because this world’s mode is passing away. ³² Now I want you to be without anxiety. He who is unmarried cares about the things of the Lord: how he will please the Lord. ³³ While he who is married cares about the things of the world: how he will please his wife. ³⁴ The wife and the virgin are also different. She who is unmarried cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; while she who is married cares about the things of the world: how she will please her husband. ³⁵ I am saying this for your own profit, not to put a leash on you, but for what is appropriate, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction. ³⁶ Now if anyone thinks he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past her prime and thus it should be, let him do what he desires; he does not sin; let them marry. ³⁷ But he who stands steadfast in his heart, not having necessity, but has control over his own will, and has determined in his heart to preserve his own virginity, does well. ³⁸ So then, he who gives in marriage does well, but he who does not give in marriage does better. ³⁹ A woman is bound by law for as long as her husband lives, but if the man should die, she is free to be married to whom she wishes—only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is more blessed if she remains as she is, according to my judgment—and I think I also have God’s Spirit.

⁴ Marriage is honorable among all and the marriage bed undefiled, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.