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Marriage
Two become one — a covenant of patience, kindness, and love.
Verses to hold onto
Genesis 2:24Read in context →
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12Read in context →
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7Read in context →
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, vaunteth...: or, is not rash Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; in the truth: or, with the truth Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Ephesians 5:25Read in context →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Colossians 3:14Read in context →
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Mark 10:9Read in context →
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
A thought
Marriage weaves two lives into one — stronger together, like a cord not quickly broken. Its daily work is the love of 1 Corinthians 13: patient, kind, forbearing, and faithful.
A prayer
Lord, strengthen our marriage. Teach us to love as You love — patient and kind — and let nothing pull apart what You joined.