Every marriage has hard seasons. These verses are for the ones that feel like they might not end.
// the word for this moment
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up... Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (KJV)
“Two are better than one... and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (KJV)“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”
Colossians 3:14 (KJV)1 Corinthians 13 gets read at weddings so often it can lose its weight, but it was written for the long haul, not the ceremony — suffers long, bears all things, endures. That's not a description of an easy marriage; it's a description of love that keeps choosing the other person through the hard seasons. If this season is hard, that doesn't mean the love has failed. It might mean it's exactly where this kind of endurance gets tested and formed.