27 Bible Verses about Loving Your Wife

Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

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

Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?

But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.

And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.

And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.

And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

And if they have a desire for knowledge about anything, let them put questions to their husbands privately: for talking in the church puts shame on a woman.

And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.

For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,

Wives, be ruled by your husbands; so that even if some of them give no attention to the word, their hearts may be changed by the behaviour of their wives,

Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.

And if a woman has a husband who is not a Christian, and it is his desire to go on living with her, let her not go away from her husband.

But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband