23 Bible Verses about Intimacy

"All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

And behold, a voice from heaven, saying, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."

And a voice came from heaven, "You are my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."

and the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased."

For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does; and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

I and the Father are one."

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me; or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves.

that they all may be one, as you, Father, are in me, and I in you; that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.

And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

He who has my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God! And so we are! The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself in all her glory, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and blameless.

Let us rejoice and be glad and give him the glory! For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?

'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,

Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."

So husbands ought also to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains;