Prayer for Marriage
Marriage is a gift and a daily choice—and it flourishes when it's rooted in prayer. A prayer for marriage invites God into the relationship: to strengthen love, heal hurt, deepen patience, and bind two people together through every season. Whether your marriage is in a sweet stretch or a hard one, these prayers ask God for unity, grace, and a love that lasts. Pray them together as a couple, or on your own for the marriage you're part of or hoping for.
No marriage is perfect, but every marriage can grow when it's surrendered to God. Pray the words below for protection over your relationship, restoration where it's needed, and a love that reflects His. Marriage is worth praying for—use these to do exactly that.
A Short Prayer for Our Marriage
Father, bless our marriage. Grow our love, deepen our patience, and bind us together in You. Help us choose each other, and You, every day. Amen.
A Prayer for a Stronger Marriage
Lord, strengthen our marriage. Where there is distance, draw us close; where there is hurt, bring healing; where there is weariness, renew our love. Teach us to forgive quickly, listen well, and serve each other faithfully. Make our home a place of grace. Amen.
A Prayer for a Marriage Going Through a Hard Time
God, our marriage is in a hard season, and we need You. Soften our hearts, heal what's broken, and help us fight for each other instead of against each other. Restore what's been lost, and give us hope. Amen.
A One-Line Prayer for Marriage
Lord, protect our marriage and grow our love in You. Amen.
A Long Prayer for Our Marriage
Loving God, You are the author of marriage and the One who joined us together. We bring our union before You today, asking You to make it strong. Thank You for the day we made our vows and for every day You have kept us since. You know the seasons we have walked through, the good ones and the hard ones alike. Where love has grown cold or tired, breathe new warmth into it again. Teach us to be patient with each other, slow to anger and quick to forgive. Help us to listen more than we speak and to assume the best of one another. Bind us together with the kind of love that bears all things and never gives up. When conflict comes, let it draw us closer instead of driving us apart. Guard our marriage against everything that would pull it down or pull us away. Make our home a place of peace, honesty, and grace. Let us put You at the center, the cord of three strands that is not easily broken. Renew our commitment, and let us choose each other again and again. Where one of us is weak, let the other be strong, and let You be our strength in both. Bless our marriage, O Lord, and let it be a reflection of Your faithful love. Amen.
A Cord of Three Strands
Father, Your word says a cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Be the third strand in our marriage. Hold us together when we cannot hold ourselves. Amen.
Scripture to pray
Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.— Ecclesiastes 4:12
Love is patient, love is kind… it keeps no record of wrongs.— 1 Corinthians 13:4–5
Frequently asked questions
What is a good prayer for marriage?
Pray for unity and growth: 'Father, bless our marriage—grow our love, deepen our patience, and bind us together in You. Amen.' Ecclesiastes 4:12 is the picture behind it: a 'cord of three strands'—the two of you and God—'is not quickly broken.'
How do you pray for a struggling marriage?
Bring the hard season honestly to God and ask Him to soften both hearts: 'God, heal what's broken and help us fight for each other instead of against each other.' Praying for your own heart to change, not just your spouse's, is often where restoration begins.
What Bible verse is good for marriage?
Ecclesiastes 4:12, the 'cord of three strands,' is a beloved marriage verse. 1 Corinthians 13:4–5, the description of patient, kind love that 'keeps no record of wrongs,' is another that couples return to again and again.