This list gives you Scripture to read, pray and remember on your wedding anniversary, whether you are celebrating one year or fifty. It is written for married couples who want their marriage to rest on God’s faithfulness rather than on mood or circumstance. The verses here share a common thread: love that keeps its promise, patience that outlasts hard seasons, and a God who stays with his people through every change.
Verses for Remembering the Promise You Made
Anniversaries are a natural time to look back at the vows you spoke, often in a room full of people who have since moved on or passed away. These verses point you to the one promise that never changes, and they remind you that your vows were made before a faithful God who keeps his word.
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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Solomon observes that two people working together accomplish more than one alone, and that a partner can lift you when you fall. On your anniversary, name one specific way your spouse has helped you up this year, and tell them so before the day ends.
Malachi 2:14
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
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This verse speaks directly to covenant faithfulness, describing marriage as a bond God himself witnesses. Consider writing your original vow words on a card and reading them aloud together, letting the old promise shape how you treat each other this year.
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 words to Naomi are not a wedding text, but they capture a loyalty that chooses commitment over convenience. Think about a moment when your spouse stayed loyal to you when it cost them something, and thank God for that faithfulness.
Verses for Hard Seasons and Quiet Miles
Not every year of marriage feels like a celebration. Illness, money pressure, grief and simple exhaustion all test a couple, and these verses speak to the long middle stretches where love looks more like endurance than romance.
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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Paul’s description of love is often read at weddings, but it is most useful in the ordinary weeks that follow. Choose one line, such as keeping no record of wrongs, and practice it deliberately with your spouse for the next seven days.
Romans 12:10
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another…
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Paul asks believers to outdo one another in showing honor, which is a practical instruction for marriage. On your anniversary, make a point of honoring your spouse in front of someone else, perhaps by telling a friend what you admire about them.
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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Forgiveness is not optional for those who have received it, and marriage is where that truth gets tested most often. Use the day to name one old hurt you have been holding and to decide, with God’s help, to release it.
Psalm 136:1
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.
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The psalmist repeats the same reason for thanks again and again, because God’s love endures forever. When you feel worn down, thank God for one good thing about your marriage each morning this week, even if it is small.
Verses for Gratitude and Looking Ahead
An anniversary is also a good moment to thank God for what he has built over the years and to ask him for the years still to come. These verses turn your attention toward gratitude and toward the faithfulness that carries a marriage forward.
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 in grief, these verses still insist that God’s mercies are new every morning. If your marriage has been through a hard year, let this be the verse that tells you each day is a fresh start you did not earn.
Psalm 90:12
So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
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Moses asks God to teach us to number our days, so that we might gain a heart of wisdom. Use your anniversary to count the years you have shared and to ask God how to spend the years ahead well.
Philippians 1:3-6
3 I thank my God whenever I remember you, 4 always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy, 5 for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now; 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 thanks God for his friends and expresses confidence that the one who began a good work will complete it. Pray this over your marriage, trusting that God who joined you is still at work in you both.
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 of plans for hope and a future, words first given to exiles far from home. On your anniversary, write down one hope you share as a couple for the coming year and bring it to God together.
How to Use These Verses
You might write one of these verses on a card and place it with a note to your spouse, or read it aloud over breakfast on your anniversary morning. Choosing a single verse for the whole year, and returning to it on each anniversary, can show you how God has been working in your marriage over time.
Pray these verses together rather than only reading them. Take one verse each, speak it back to God in your own words, and then ask him to help you live it out this year. Couples often find that praying Scripture together, even for a few minutes, opens conversations that would otherwise stay closed.
A Short Prayer for Wedding Anniversaries
Lord, thank you for the years you have given us together. We know that you were present on the day we made our promises, and you have been faithful to us since then, even when we were not faithful to each other. Forgive us for the times we have failed to love well, and help us to honor each other with patience and kindness. Guide us through the years ahead, and let our marriage show something of your steady love to the people around us. Amen.
