31 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;

Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.

And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;

Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.

That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church.

because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.

A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.

Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly.

So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.

There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business--that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world--how she shall please her husband.

But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, but the Lord's--that a wife is not to leave her husband;

but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world--how he shall please his wife.

and the two shall be one'; so that they are two no longer, but 'one.'

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband--if he consents to live with her, let her not separate from him.

"For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."

For in the Resurrection, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven.

For, in such cases, the unbelieving husband has become--and is--holy through union with a Christian woman, and the unbelieving wife is holy through union with a Christian brother. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but in reality they have a place among God's people.

Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

For what assurance have you, O woman, as to whether you will save your husband? Or what assurance have you, O man, as to whether you will save your wife?

Married men, in the same way, live with your wives with a clear recognition of the fact that they are weaker than you. Yet, since you are heirs with them of God's free gift of Life, treat them with honour; so that your prayers may not be hindered.

A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.

Let all that you do be done from motives of love.

Married women, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands, so that even if some of them disbelieve the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over by the daily life of their wives, after watching your daily life--

Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;

Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,

with all lowliness of mind and unselfishness, and with patience, bearing with one another lovingly, and earnestly striving to maintain,

Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; and the bridegroom's friend who stands by his side and listens to him, rejoices heartily on account of the bridegroom's happiness. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.