27 Bible Verses about Loving Your Wife

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

Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself.

Only you also, each one [of you], must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife {must respect} her husband.

The husband must fulfill his obligation to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

because [the] husband is [the] head of the wife, as also Christ [is the] head of the church (he himself [being the] Savior of the body).

May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

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

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

Husbands, in the same way live with [your wives] {knowledgeably}, as with the weaker female vessel, showing [them] honor as fellow heirs also of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

And Yahweh said to me again, "Go, love a woman {who has a lover} and [is] committing adultery, just like the love of Yahweh [for] the children of Israel, but they [are] turning to other gods and love raisin cakes."

and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.

--wives to their own husbands as to the Lord,

The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

But if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

And Jacob loved Rachel and said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter."

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ [does] the church,

[She is] a deer of love and a doe of grace; may her breasts satisfy you {always}; by her love may you be intoxicated continually.

"For this [reason] a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

But you ask, "{For what reason}?" Because Yahweh stands as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been unfaithful, even though she [is] your marriage partner and {your wife by covenant}.

in order that he might sanctify her by cleansing [her] with the washing of water by the word;

"If a man takes a woman and {he has sex with her}, but [he] then {dislikes her},

In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the conduct of their wives,

being subject to one another {out of reverence for} Christ

And if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she must not divorce her husband.

To the married I command--not I, but the Lord--a wife must not separate from [her] husband.