What Does the Bible Say About Communication In Marriages?

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

1 Corinthians 7:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

(but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

Mark 10:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,

Romans 7:2-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

Mark 12:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.”

Isaiah 6:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” ...

Isaiah 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.”

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 1 helpful vote

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

Genesis 30:14-16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.” But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?” Rachel said, “Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes.” When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes.” So he lay with her that night.

Genesis 4:23-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me. If Cain's revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech's is seventy-sevenfold.”

12 Bible Verses about Communication In Marriages

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 10:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 7:2-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Mark 12:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 6:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 30:14-16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 4:23-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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12 Bible Verses about Communication In Marriages

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1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 10:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 7:2-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Mark 12:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 6:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 30:14-16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 4:23-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote