40 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.

and above all these things, love, which is the bond of perfection.

Let the husband render the goodwill owed to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

This mystery is great, but I speak for Christ and for the church.

Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be charged with any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

A wife is bound by law as long a time as her husband lives, but also if the husband should sleep, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in Lord.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them.

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

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me, but give me the damsel to wife.

And the wife and the virgin are differentiated. The unmarried woman is concerned for the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married is concerned for the things of the world, how s

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

But he who is married cares for things of the world, how he will please his wife.

and the two will be in one flesh. So then they are no more two, but one flesh.

And whichever woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, she should not leave him.

Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as agents of God in heaven.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the husband, then otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:

Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in Lord.

And Jacob loved Rachel, and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

For how do thou know, O wife, whether thou will save thy husband? Or how will thou know, O husband, whether thou will save thy wife?

Likewise the husbands living together knowledgably, as with a weaker vessel, apportioning worth to the female as also joint-heirs of the grace of life, for your prayers not to be hindered.

For the woman under authority to the living husband has been bound by law, but if the husband should die, she has been released from the law of the husband.

Let all things of you be done in love.

Yet ye say, Why? Because LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou have dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Likewise the wives, being subordinate to their own husbands, so that even if any are disobedient to the word, they will be gained without a word by the behavior of the wives,

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and dislikes her,

of the nations concerning which LORD said to the sons of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods. Solomon clave to these in love.

Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,

with all humility and mildness, with longsuffering, forbearing each other in love.

But also if thou did marry thou have not sinned, and if the virgin married she has not sinned. Yet such kind will have stress in the flesh, but I spare you.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This therefore my joy is fulfilled.

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

But if they have no self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

with brotherly love toward each other, affectionate, leading each other in recognition,