If you are looking for encouraging Bible verses for wedding anniversaries, this list gives you a set of Scripture passages to read, remember and pray over as you mark another year with your spouse. The verses are grouped by the moods an anniversary can bring: gratitude for what has been kept, steadiness for the years ahead, and the everyday love that keeps a marriage warm. Each one points you back to God’s faithfulness and invites you to answer it with your own faithfulness to each other.
Verses for Looking Back With Gratitude
Anniversaries tend to invite a backward glance, a sort of quiet inventory of the hard seasons you have survived and the small joys you nearly forgot. These verses help you name what God has done across those years, so the day becomes a thank you rather than only a celebration of time passing.
Lamentations 3:22-23
22 It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail. 23 They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
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Written by someone who had lost nearly everything, these lines remind you that God’s kindness has not run out, even after a rough year. Take a few minutes on your anniversary to name one specific mercy from the past twelve months and thank God for it out loud.
Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
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This short call to give thanks is simple enough to memorize and say over your spouse at breakfast. Choose one thing you are grateful for in the marriage and tell your spouse before the day is over.
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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Paul’s instruction to love and respect is worth returning to after many years, when habits can begin to replace attention. Write a short note naming one way your spouse has shown love this year and leave it where they will find it.
Verses for Facing the Years Ahead
Every anniversary also looks forward, toward illness, work pressure, children leaving home, or simply the unknown. The passages in this group speak to the fear that the next chapter will be too much, and they anchor both of you in a God who goes ahead.
Isaiah 41:10
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
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God’s promise to be with his people and strengthen them is especially steadying when you are uncertain what the coming year will bring. Read this verse together before you make any big plans for the year, and talk about one worry you can hand over to God.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.
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The writer notes that two people working together fare better than one, and that a partner can lift you when you fall. Name one task or burden you will carry as a team in the year ahead and decide how you will support each other with it.
Romans 8:38-39
38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from God’s love, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Paul lists the things that cannot separate believers from God’s love, and his list is long on purpose. Sit with the words for a moment and let them remind you that the love holding your marriage is held by something far larger than either of you.
Psalm 121:8
The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.
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This verse promises that the Lord watches over your coming and going, both now and always. Pray it over your spouse when one of you leaves for work or travel, asking God to keep them safe until you are together again.
Verses for the Everyday Work of Love
A marriage that lasts many years is built mostly on ordinary days: patience at the dinner table, forgiveness after a sharp word, a kind word offered without being asked. These verses speak to the small, repeated choices that make up a long commitment.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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Often read at weddings, this passage describes love in daily action: patient, kind, not keeping a record of wrongs. Read it again on your anniversary as a checklist, not a decoration, and choose one line to practice more intentionally this month.
Colossians 3:13
Bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
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Paul asks believers to bear with one another and forgive as they have been forgiven. After many years together, this verse is a gentle reminder to release old grievances, and you can make that concrete by apologizing for one thing you have been holding against your spouse.
Proverbs 31:10-12
10 Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain. 12 She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.
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This passage praises a spouse whose presence brings good and not harm, and it can be read as a description of the steady goodness that builds trust over time. Tell your spouse specifically which of these qualities you value most in them and why.
1 Peter 4:8
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
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Peter urges believers to love one another deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins. Consider one small failing you have overlooked in your spouse this year and choose to cover it with love rather than correction.
Verses for Renewing Your Commitment
An anniversary is a natural moment to speak your promises again, quietly or in front of others. The passages here point you toward the God who makes covenant faithfulness possible, and they give language for renewing vows in your own words.
Ruth 1:16-17
16 Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”
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Ruth’s pledge of loyalty to Naomi is one of the most moving commitments in Scripture, made without any guarantee of ease. Consider reading these words aloud to your spouse and then sharing one promise you want to make in your own voice.
Psalm 136:1
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.
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This psalm repeats the same refrain again and again, a steady acknowledgment that God’s love endures. Let your anniversary prayer echo this refrain, thanking God for his steadfast love in the marriage you share.
Joshua 24:15
If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
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Joshua declares that he and his household will serve the Lord, a clear decision made before the whole community. Ask yourselves together what your household has chosen to serve this year, and name one way you want to recommit to that choice.
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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The writer calls marriage honorable among all and asks couples to keep the marriage bed pure. Use this verse as a prompt to honor your marriage in both attitude and action, perhaps by planning a simple date or time away together.
Philippians 1:6
Being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
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Paul writes that God, who began a good work, will carry it on to completion. Thank God that he is still working in your marriage, shaping both of you across the years, and ask him to finish what he has started in you.
How to Use These Verses
Choose two or three verses that stood out to you and write them on a card, a note inside a card, or the first page of a journal you keep for your marriage. Keeping them where you will see them, such as on the bathroom mirror or in a shared calendar note, turns a single anniversary reading into a year of quiet encouragement.
Read the verses together over a meal or during a walk, and take turns saying what each one means to you right now. Pray them back to God afterward, using the words of the passage as the basis for your own requests and thanks, so that Scripture shapes the way you speak to each other and to him.
A Short Prayer for Wedding Anniversaries
Lord, thank you for the years you have given us and for every season you have carried us through together. Thank you for the faithfulness you have shown when we were weak and the patience you have shown when we were slow to listen. Teach us to love each other in the ordinary days as well as the celebrated ones. Keep our hearts soft toward one another, quick to forgive and slow to be angry. Walk with us into the year ahead, and let our marriage point others toward your steady love. Amen.
