30 Bible Verses about spouse

A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights.

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--

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

There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business--that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world--how she shall please her husband.

For, in such cases, the unbelieving husband has become--and is--holy through union with a Christian woman, and the unbelieving wife is holy through union with a Christian brother. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but in reality they have a place among God's people.

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

or if she has already left him, let her either remain as she is or be reconciled to him; and that a husband is not to send away his wife.

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

A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.

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

Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,

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?

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.

At the Resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? for they all married her."

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to get free. Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife.

"Teacher," they said, "Moses enjoined, 'If a man die childless, his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.'

Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly.

If, however, the unbeliever is determined to leave, let him or her do so. Under such circumstances the Christian man or woman is no slave; God has called us to live lives of peace.

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

Do not refuse one another, unless perhaps it is just for a time and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and may then associate again; lest the Adversary begin to tempt you because of your deficiency in self-control.

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.

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 the two shall be one'; so that they are two no longer, but 'one.'

So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.

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 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."

"If this is the case with a man in relation to his wife," said the disciples to Him, "it is better not to marry."