56 Bible Verses about Love, In Relationships

Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in Lord. Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them.

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and {the two (LXX/NT)} shall be one flesh.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be charged with any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth: a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love. For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

Likewise the husbands living together knowledgably, as with a weaker vessel, apportioning worth to the female as also joint-heirs of the grace of life, for your prayers not to be hindered.

For thy maker is thy husband. LORD of hosts is his name. And the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer. He shall be called the God of the whole earth.

Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it, so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word, so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished.

For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee. And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness. Yea, I swore to thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, says lord LORD, and th

And I will betroth thee to me forever. Yea, I will betroth thee to me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercies.

For I am jealous for you with a jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, a pure virgin to present to the Christ.

We should be glad and rejoice and give the glory to him, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has prepared herself.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

For jealousy is a man's fury, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance. He will not regard any ransom, nor will he be satisfied, though thou give many gifts.

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

And Jacob loved Rachel, and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but LORD had shut up her womb.

And LORD said to me, Go again, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, and an adulteress, even as LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

But Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not wanting to expose her to public disgrace, intended to dismiss her privately.

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Thou shall not lay with mankind, as with womankind. It is abomination.

Do not profane thy daughter, to make her a harlot, lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. Thou shall not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of LORD thy God for any vow, for even both these are an abomination to LORD thy God.

But I say to you, that whoever may divorce his wife apart from a matter of fornication, disposes her to commit adultery, and whoever may marry her who has been divorced commits adultery.

to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, keeping yourselves from which, ye will do well. Be strong.

Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature. And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward each other, males with males producing shamelessness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their deviancy that was fitting

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

Nor should we fornicate as some of them fornicated, and three thousand fell in one day.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified,

Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

Thou shall not commit adultery.

And the man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Neither shall thou commit adultery.

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

And I say to you, that whoever may divorce his wife, not for fornication, and will marry another, commits adultery. And he who married her who has been divorced commits adultery.

For I hate putting away, says LORD, the God of Israel, and him who covers his garment with violence, says LORD of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

And he says to them, Whoever may divorce his wife, and will marry another, commits adultery against her. And if a woman should divorce her husband, and will be married to another, she commits adultery.

Every man who divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery, and every man who marries her who has been divorced from a husband commits adultery.

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband. But even if she separates, she shall remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.

But I say to you, that every man who looks on a woman to crave her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

I made a covenant with my eyes. How then should I look upon a virgin?

Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids.

But if they have no self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

Who, having become callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness for the work of all uncleanness in greed.

not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away. Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Let helpers be husbands of one wife, ruling children and their own houses well.

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not with an accusation of debauchery or insubordinate.