21 Bible Verses about Loving Your Wife

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor.

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

Any one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and any one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

and if they wish to ask questions, they should ask their own husbands at home. For it is disgraceful for a married woman to speak at a Church assembly.

For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;

"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."

in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal water by the word,

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--

and submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

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

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