21 Bible Verses about Loving Your Wife

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,

You husbands must continue to love your wives and stop being harsh with them.

This is the way married men ought to love their wives, as they do their own bodies. The married man who loves his wife is really loving himself,

But each one of you married men must love his wife as he loves himself, and the married woman, too, must respect her husband.

The husband must always give his wife what is due her, and the wife too must do so for her husband.

for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the Head of the church, His body, and Saviour of it.

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

A married man is concerned about the affairs of the world, and how he can please his wife, and so his devotion is divided.

You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, for this is your Christian duty.

You married men, in the same way, must live with your wives in an intelligent consideration of them; you must show them deference, too, as the weaker sex, as they share with you the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,

Anybody who loves father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me,

If they want to find out about something, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

for no one ever hates his own physical person, but he feeds and fosters it, just as Christ does the church;

Therefore, a man must leave his father and mother and so perfectly unite himself to his wife that the two shall be one.

to consecrate her, after cleansing her through His word, as pictured in the water bath,

You married women, in the same way, must be submissive to your husbands, so that, if any of them do not believe the message, they may be won over without a word through the living of the wives,

keep on living in subordination to one another out of reverence to Christ.

and a woman who has a husband that is not a believer, but he consents to live with her, must not divorce her husband.

To the people already married I give this instruction -- no, not I but the Lord -- that a wife is not to leave her husband.