40 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

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

But ye also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife I speak that she may fear the husband.

And to all these add love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.

This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.

for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly. He is Saviour of the body.

When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out with the army, neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken.

A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes as single days, because he loved her.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.

Impose on me very much as dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me; but give me the maiden as wife.

There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that has married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

But to the married I enjoin, not I, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;

but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.

and the two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two but one flesh.

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

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

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since otherwise indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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

For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thy husband? or what knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save thy wife?

Ye husbands likewise, dwell with them according to knowledge, as with a weaker, even the female, vessel, giving them honour, as also fellow-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:

Let all things ye do be done in love.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without the word by the conversation of the wives,

If a man take a wife, and go in unto her and hate her,

of the nations of which Jehovah had said to the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in to you; they would certainly turn away your heart after their gods: to these Solomon was attached in love.

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

But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any:

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

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

He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices in heart because of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy then is fulfilled.

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

But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other: