57 Bible Verses about Love, In Relationships

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and one doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually. And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them, according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

For thy Maker is thy husband, Jehovah of Hosts is His name, And thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, 'God of all the earth,' He is called.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying, that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

For a young man doth marry a virgin, Thy Builders do marry thee, With the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, Rejoice over thee doth thy God.

Turn back, O backsliding sons, An affirmation of Jehovah. For I have ruled over you, And taken you one of a city, and two of a family, And have brought you to Zion,

And I pass over by thee, and I see thee, And lo, thy time is a time of loves, And I spread My skirt over thee, And I cover thy nakedness, And I swear to thee, and come in to a covenant with thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And thou dost become Mine.

And I have betrothed thee to Me to the age, And betrothed thee to Me in righteousness, And in judgment, and kindness, and mercies,

for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready;

and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.

For jealousy is the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance. He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!

and Isaac bringeth her in unto the tent of Sarah his mother, and he taketh Rebekah, and she becometh his wife, and he loveth her, and Isaac is comforted after the death of his mother.

And Jacob loveth Rachel, and saith, 'I serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter:'

And it cometh to pass afterwards that he loveth a woman in the valley of Sorek, and her name is Delilah,

and to Hannah he giveth a certain portion -- double, for he hath loved Hannah, and Jehovah hath shut her womb;

And Jehovah saith unto me: 'Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah, the sons of Israel, and they are turning unto other gods, and are lovers of grape-cakes.'

and Joseph her husband being righteous, and not willing to make her an example, did wish privately to send her away.

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it is.

'Thou dost not pollute thy daughter to cause her to go a-whoring, that the land go not a-whoring, and the land hath been full of wickedness.

'There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel; thou dost not bring a gift of a whore, or a price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow; for the abomination of Jehovah thy God are even both of them.

but I -- I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, did burn in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the recompense of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving.

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --

flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

'Thou dost not commit adultery.

And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife -- who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour -- the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.

'Thou dost not commit adultery.

To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

'And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

For I hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He who hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

and he saith to them, 'Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her; and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'

'Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband: but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

but I -- I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin?

Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

And he doth not multiply to himself wives, and his heart doth not turn aside, and silver and gold he doth not multiply to himself -- exceedingly.

And He did not make one only, And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --