30 Bible Verses about Love, In Relationships

Ye wives, submit to your husbands as is becoming in the Lord. Ye husbands, love your wives with divine love, and be not harsh towards them.

Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

Likewise, ye husbands, dwelling with the wife according to knowledge, as the weaker vessel, extending to them honor, as indeed the equal heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers should not be hindered.

Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her; in order that he might sanctify her, having purified her by the washing of water through the word, in order that he might present to himself the glorious church, having not spot or wrinkle or any of such things; but that she might be holy and blameless.

For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God: for I espoused you to one husband, to present you a pure virgin to Christ;

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

And Joseph her husband, being righteous and not wishing to expose her publicly, determined to send her away secretly.

but on account of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

But I say unto you, that every one sending away his wife, except on account of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever may marry her who has been cast off commits adultery.

to abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which keeping yourselves, you will do well. Fare ye well.

On account of this God gave them up to the lusts of dishonor: for indeed their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature: likewise also the men, having left the natural use of the woman, burned in their desire towards one another; men with men working out disgrace, and receiving the reward of their error among themselves which it behooved.

Fornication is truly heard of among you, and such fornication which is not among the heathens, that one should have the wife of his father.

Fly from fornication. Every sin which a man may commit is outside of his body; the one committing fornication sins against his own body.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day twenty-three thousand.

But all fornication, and uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as it becomes saints;

Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication;

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites,

Marriage is honorable among all, and the couch undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

But I say unto you, That whosoever may send away his wife, not for fornication, and may marry another, commits adultery.

Whosoever may send away his wife, and marry another, commits adultery unto her. And if she having sent away her husband, may marry another, she commits adultery.

Every one sending away his wife, and marrying another, commits adultery; and the one marrying her who has been sent away by her husband commits adultery.

But I proclaim to those who have married, not I, but the Lord, That a wife shall not depart from her husband (but if indeed she may depart, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled unto her husband); and that the husband shall not send away the wife.

But I say unto you that every one looking on a woman in order to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

but if they do not contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

who being past feeling have given themselves up to debauchery, unto the working of all impurity with greediness.

not in the passion of lust, as indeed the Gentiles who do not know God;

Therefore it behooves the bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, modest, prudent, orderly, hospitable, competent to teach,

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses beautifully.

if any one is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of riot or incorrigible.