This list gives you Bible readings to share on a wedding anniversary, whether you are reading them with your spouse over breakfast, writing them in a card, or reading them alone while you give thanks for the years behind you. The passages below all speak to love that lasts, promises that hold, and a God who stays faithful through ordinary days and hard seasons. Each one can be read slowly and returned to again on the next anniversary.
Verses About Love That Keeps Growing
Love in a marriage is rarely a single feeling. It is a practice repeated across thousands of small choices, and these passages describe what that practice looks like when it is done well.
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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This is the passage most couples recognize first, and it works best read as a checklist for the year ahead. Pick one line, such as patience or keeping no record of wrongs, and make it the thing you practice on the first day of the new year of marriage.
Song of Solomon 8:6-7
6 Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD. 7 Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.
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The writer describes love as strong as death and waters that cannot put it out. Share this one over a cup of coffee and ask each other what has kept your love burning through a difficult stretch.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it…
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Paul asks husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church, giving himself up for her. Read it aloud and then name one specific way you will give yourself up for your spouse in the coming year, however small.
Verses About Faithfulness Through the Seasons
Anniversaries mark time, and time brings seasons of joy, strain, loss and quiet routine. These verses remind couples that faithfulness is measured over decades, not moments.
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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Two people working together get more done and lift each other when one falls. Think of a year when your partner helped you up, and tell them about it specifically on your anniversary.
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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Even in a book of grief, the writer finds that God’s mercies are new every morning. Use this as a morning reminder when the first hour of the day feels heavy with the weight of the marriage.
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 line of thanks again and again, as if memory itself were an act of worship. On your anniversary, list three things from your years together and thank God for each one out loud.
Verses for Gratitude and Looking Back
An anniversary invites you to look backward before looking forward. These passages help turn memories into gratitude rather than comparison or regret.
Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
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The psalmist calls for thanks because the Lord is good and his love endures forever. Start your anniversary day by giving thanks for one good thing from the past year, even if the year was hard.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the LORD your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations…
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Moses reminds Israel that the Lord keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him. Consider how God’s faithfulness has been the thread running through your own marriage, and name it together.
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 his household will serve the Lord, a public commitment made to the people around him. Renew your own commitment in a simple way, perhaps by saying it aloud to each other before you pray.
Verses for Hope in the Years Ahead
The anniversary also points forward. These readings encourage couples to trust God with the unknown and to walk into another year together with open hands.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
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God speaks to exiles with plans for hope and a future. Write this verse on a card and place it somewhere you will both see it during the coming year, as a reminder that the story is not finished.
Proverbs 3:5-6
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
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Trusting God with all your heart means not leaning only on your own understanding. Before making a big decision as a couple this year, pause together and ask God to make your paths straight.
Isaiah 43:2
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.
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Isaiah promises that when you pass through waters and fire, God will be with you. Remember this when the next year brings trouble, and agree now to face it side by side.
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 death, life, height and depth and concludes that nothing separates us from God’s love. Let this passage steady you both, especially when fear about the future starts to crowd out gratitude for the present.
How to Use These Verses
Choose two or three passages to focus on for the anniversary rather than trying to read all fifteen at once. Write them on cards, a whiteboard, or the first page of a shared notebook so the words are easy to find on the morning of the day. Many couples keep a running list and add a new verse each year.
Read the passages out loud, and let each person reflect on a line that stands out. Pray over them together before the day gets busy, and consider revisiting the same verses on future anniversaries to see how your understanding has deepened over time.
A Short Prayer for Wedding Anniversaries
Lord, thank you for the years you have given us and for the way you have held us through them. Thank you for the love we have shared, for the forgiveness we have needed and received, and for the good days that remind us of your kindness. Keep us faithful to each other in the years ahead, patient when we are tired, and generous when we are tempted to keep score. Guide us in the choices still before us, and let our marriage point others toward your steadfast love. Amen.
