These daily marriage devotionals are compiled from verses that we have shared with Christian couples in many counseling sessions over many years. Please read one per day and meditate on how it applies to your marriage. (Note: if you are not certain you are a Christian, please read The Sinner’s Prayer)
And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity. (Colossians 3:14 BSB)
In Colossians 3:14, Paul tells us that love is what binds all virtues together in perfect unity. This is true not only in our relationship with God, but also in our marriage. When we prioritize love in our marriage, it helps to bring all other virtues together in perfect unity.
But what does it mean to “put on love” in our marriage? It means making a conscious decision to love our spouse, even when it is difficult. It means choosing to forgive them when they hurt us and to extend grace and mercy to them. It means putting their needs and wants on par with our own.
When we “put on love” in our marriage, it helps to create a deeper level of unity and connection with our spouse. It helps to bring peace and harmony to our relationship and allows us to weather the storms of life together.
So, as you go about your day, remember to “put on love” in your marriage. When you prioritize love in your relationship with your spouse, it will help to bring all other virtues together in perfect unity.
Prayer
Dear God, help us to “put on love” in our marriage. Help us to make a conscious decision to love our spouse, even when it is difficult. Help us to forgive them when they hurt us and to extend grace and mercy to them. We pray for a deeper level of unity and connection in our marriage. Amen.
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If you miss one, two, or many days, don’t worry about it and don’t try to catch up. Just start where you are and keep going. We have found the Holy Spirit can prompt you to return to just the passage you need for today.
This is an ongoing labor of love because these marriage devotionals will never be finished, but we have to start somewhere, so we will update often. We appreciate your support and prayers because this is a work of God not us. And please forgive us because we have never found a verse that doesn’t apply to marriage somehow.
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. (Proverbs 30:5)
Going beyond marriage devotionals
- Leave and cleave – God gave husbands instruction to leave and cleave because they need to break ties with their birth-families to forge their marriages
- The perspective of a successful marriage – If this perspective can lead to an incredible Olympic victory, imagine what it can do for your marriage. It’s almost a miracle!
- Biblical relationship checkup – This Biblical relationship checkup helps couples find where they are on God’s map of a successful marriage and find direction for improvement
- Help for hurting marriages – When I am weak, then I am strong. Help for hurting marriages is found in the wisdom of these Bible scriptures. Apply them as often as needed.
- Tying the Knot: A Premarital Guide to a Strong and Lasting Marriage by Rob Green – Field-tested and recommended by multiple counselors in a thriving counseling practice, Tying the Knot has already guided many couples into a stronger and more joyful union. Let this nine-week pre-marriage study reorient your life and marriage around Christ, so you both will experience all the blessings of marriage as God designed it.
- Love Life for Every Married Couple: How to Fall in Love, Stay in Love, Rekindle Your Love by Ed Wheat – This is a favorite classic book because it has stood the test of time. Physician Ed Wheat has helped thousands of couples improve their love lives and build happier marriages. In Love Life for Every Married Couple, he’ll help you improve your marriage through sharing, touching, appreciating, and focusing healing attention on your mate.