31 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it;

But let every one of you in particular so love his wife as himself: and let the wife reverence her husband.

And above all these put on love, which is the bond of perfection:

Let the husband render the debt to the wife; and in like manner the wife also to the husband.

This is a great mystery; I mean, concerning Christ and the church.

For the husband is head of the wife, as Christ also is head of the church:

The wife is bound as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to marry whom she will; only in the Lord.

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

Men ought so to love their wives as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

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

The married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband.

But the married careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

And they twain shall be one flesh; so then they are no more twain but one flesh.

And the wife, who hath an unbelieving husband, that consenteth to live with her, let her not put him away.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and they two shall be one flesh.

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

For the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified by the wife; and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified by the husband. Else were your children unclean; but now they are holy.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands (as is fit) in the Lord.

For how knowest thou, O wife, but thou mayst save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O husband, but thou mayst save thy wife?

In like manner, ye husbands, dwell according to knowledge with the woman, as the weaker vessel; giving them honour, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

For the married woman is bound to her husband while he is alive; but if her husband be dead, she is freed from the law of her husband.

Let all your affairs be done in love.

In like manner, ye wives, be subject to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also may, without the word, be won by the conversation of the wives,

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

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that even they that have wives, be as if they had none: And they that weep, as if they wept not;

With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering,

Yet if thou dost marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you.

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly, because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

Yet, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife; and let every woman have her own husband.

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

In brotherly love be full of tender affection toward each other, in honour preferring one another: