57 Bible Verses about Love, In Relationships

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out with the army, neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken.

Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth. As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love. And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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

Ye husbands likewise, dwell with them according to knowledge, as with a weaker, even the female, vessel, giving them honour, as also fellow-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

For thy Maker is thy husband: Jehovah of hosts is his name, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it, in order that he might sanctify it, purifying it by the washing of water by the word, that he might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, shall thy sons marry thee; and with the joy of the bridegroom over the bride, shall thy God rejoice over thee.

Return, backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you, and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

And I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, and behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; and I swore unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou becamest mine.

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; and I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies;

For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy which is of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ.

Let us rejoice and exult, and give him glory; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes as single days, because he loved her.

For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance; he will not regard any ransom, neither will he rest content though thou multipliest thy gifts.

And Isaac led her into his mother Sarah's tent; and he took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after the death of his mother.

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

After this he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Deli'lah.

but to Hannah he used to give a double portion, for he loved Hannah; but Jehovah had shut up her womb.

And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of a friend, and an adulteress, according to the love of Jehovah for the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love raisin-cakes.

But Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and unwilling to expose her publicly, purposed to have put her away secretly;

but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.

And thou shalt not lie with mankind as one lieth with a woman: it is an abomination.

Do not profane thy daughter, to give her up to whoredom; lest the land practise whoredom, and the land become full of infamy.

There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow; for even both these are an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except for cause of fornication, makes her commit adultery, and whosoever marries one that is put away commits adultery.

to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.

For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature; and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.

It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

And a man that committeth adultery with a man's wife, who committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death.

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,

Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, not for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery; and he who marries one put away commits adultery.

(for I hate putting away, saith Jehovah the God of Israel;) and he covereth with violence his garment, saith Jehovah of hosts: take heed then to your spirit, that ye deal not unfaithfully.

And he says to them, Whosoever shall put away his wife and shall marry another, commits adultery against her. And if a woman put away her husband and shall marry another, she commits adultery.

Every one who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from a husband commits adultery.

But to the married I enjoin, not I, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband; (but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not husband leave wife.

But I say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?

Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;

But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt 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 not one make them? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth,

Let the ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting their children and their own houses well:

if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.