21 Bible Verses about Loving Your Wife

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

Husbands, be loving to your wives, and be not cross or surly with them.

That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.

Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person,

because a husband is the head of his wife even as Christ is head of the church, his body, which he saves.

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 a married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how he may please his wife, and he is divided in his mind.

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting for Christians.

In the same way you husbands live with your wives, according to knowledge, honoring your wife as of the weaker sex, yet as an heir with yourself of the grace of life; so that your prayers may not be hindered.

and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."

Wives likewise to their husbands as to the Lord,

"He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

And if they want to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a women to speak in church."

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church;

For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word,

In the same way you wives must be submissive to your own husbands; so that if some of them will not believe the message, they may apart from the message be won over by the behavior of their wives,

Submit yourselves one to another out of reverence for Christ.

And a woman whose husband is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let her not separate from him.

But to those already married my commandment is??nd not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to leave her husband;