57 Bible Verses about Love, In Relationships

Ye wives! be submitting yourselves unto your husbands, as is becoming in the Lord; Ye husbands! be loving your wives, and be not embittered against them;

For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go forth to war, neither shall he be charged with any business, - free, shall he be for his own house one year, and shall rejoice with his wife whom he hath taken.

Let thy well-spring be blessed, - and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth: - A loving hind! a graceful doe! let, her bosom, content thee at all times, and, in her love, mayst thou stray evermore. Wherefore, then, shouldst thou stray, my son, with a strange woman? or embrace the bosom of a woman unknown?

Ye wives, unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord,

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them according to knowledge, - as unto a weaker vessel, unto the female vessel , assigning honour, as joint - inheritors also of life's favour, - to the end that unhindered may be, your prayers.

For, thy husband, is, thy Maker, Yahweh of hosts, is his Name, - And, thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, The God of all the earth, shall he be called.

Ye husbands, be loving your wives, even as, the Christ also, loved the assembly, and delivered, himself, up in her behalf, That, her, he might sanctify, having purified her with the bath of water, in declaration, That, he, might present, unto himself, the assembly, all glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any of such things, but that she should be holy and blameless;

For a young man marrieth, a virgin, Thy sons marry thee! And the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride - Thy God, rejoiceth over thee.

Return, ye apostate sons, Urgeth Yahweh, for, I, am become your husband, - therefore will I take you one of a city, and two of a family, and will bring you to Zion;

And I passed by thee and looked upon thee and lo! thy time was the time for endearments, So I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy shame, And took an oath to thee And entered into covenant with thee. Declareth My Lord. Yahweh. And thou didst become mine.

And I will take thee unto myself, unto times age-abiding, - yea I will take thee unto myself, in righteousness and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in abounding compassion:

For I am jealous over you with a jealousy, of God; for I myself betrothed you unto one husband, to present, a chaste virgin, unto the Christ, -

Let us rejoice and exult, and give glory unto him, because the marriage of the Lamb, is come, and, his wife, hath made herself ready;

So Jacob served for Rachel - seven years, - and they became, in his eyes, as single days, for his love to her.

For, jealousy, is the rage of a man, nor will he spare, in the day of avenging; He will not look, at any ransom, neither will he consent, though thou increase the bribe.

And Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother; thus he took Rebekah and she became his wife and he loved her, - and Isaac consoled himself, for the loss of his mother.

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

And it came to pass, after this, that he loved a woman in the ravine of Shorek, whose, name, was Delilah.

and, unto Hannah, used he to give one portion, - howbeit, Hannah, he loved, although, Yahweh, had restrained her from having children.

Then said Yahweh unto me, Once more, go love a woman who loveth a friend, and is an adulteress, - according to the love of Yahweh unto the sons of Israel, though they keep turning away unto other gods, and love idolatrous raisin-cakes.

Moreover, Joseph her husband, being, righteous, and yet unwilling to expose her, - intended, privately, to divorce her.

But, on account of fornications, let, each man, have, his own wife, and, each woman, have, her own husband:

And, with mankind, shalt thou not lie as with womankind, - an abomination, it is.

Do not profane thy daughter by causing her to be unchaste, - lest the land fall to unchastity, and so the land be filled with wickedness.

There shall be no female devotee of the daughters of Israel, - neither shall there be, a male devotee, of the sons of Israel. Thou shalt not bring the wages of an unchaste woman, or the hire of a dog, into the house of Yahweh thy God for any vow, - for, an abomination unto Yahweh thy God, are they both.

But, I, say unto you, that, Everyone who divorceth his wife - saving for unfaithfulness, causeth her to be made an adulteress, - and, whosoever shall marry a divorced woman, committeth adultery.

To be abstaining from idol sacrifices, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication, - From which, if ye keep yourselves, ye shall prosper. Fare ye well.

For this cause, God gave them up unto dishonourable passions; for, even their females, exchanged away the natural use into that which is against nature, - In like manner also, even the males, leaving the natural use of the female, flamed out in their eager desire one for another, males with males, the indecency, effecting, - and, the necessary recompence of their error, within themselves, duly receiving; -

On all hands, there is reported to be among you - fornication, and such fornication as this - which, not among the nations, is found , - as that one should have, his father's wife: -

Flee fornication! Every sin, whatsoever a man shall commit, is, outside his body, but, he that committeth fornication, bringeth sin into his own body.

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

But, fornication, and all impurity, or covetousness, let it not be named among you - even as becometh saints;

Make dead, therefore, your members that are on the earth - as regardeth fornication, impurity, passion, base coveting, and greed, the which, is idolatry, -

For, this, is a thing willed of God, your sanctification, - that ye should abstain from unchastity,

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

And, any man, who committeth adultery with the wife of any other man, he that committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour shall surely be put to death - the adulterer, and the adulteress.

Neither shalt thou commit adultery:

To keep thee from the wicked woman, from the flattery of the tongue of her that is a stranger.

Or know ye not that, wrong-doers, shall not inherit, God's kingdom? Be not deceiving yourselves: - neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

Let marriage be honourable in all, and the bed undefiled, for, fornicators and adulterers, God, will judge.

And I say unto you - Whosoever shall divorce his wife, saving for unfaithfulness, and shall marry another, committeth adultery.

For he hateth divorce, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, him also who covereth with violence his own clothing, saith Yahweh of hosts, - therefore should ye take heed to your spirit, and not deal treacherously.

and he saith unto them - Whosoever shall divorce his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her; And, if, she, divorcing her husband, marry another, she committeth adultery.

Every one divorcing his wife and marrying another, committeth adultery; and, he that marrieth a woman divorced from a husband, committeth adultery.

To the married, however, I give charge - not, I, but the Lord, - that, a wife, from her husband, do not depart, - But, if she should even depart, let her remain unmarried, or, to her husband, be reconciled; and let not, a husband, leave, his wife.

But, I, say unto you, that, Every one who looketh on a woman so as to covet her, already, hath committed adultery with her, in his heart.

A covenant, I solemnised for mine eyes, - How then could I gaze upon a virgin?

Do not covet her beauty, in thy heart, neither let her take thee, by her eyelashes;

But, if they have not self-control, let them marry, for, better, is it, to marry than to burn.

Who, indeed, having become past feeling, have delivered, themselves, up, with wantonness, unto making a trade of all impurity with greed.

Not with a passion of coveting, - just as even the nations who know not God, -

It is needful, then, for, the overseer, to be irreproachable, a husband, of one wife, sober, of sound mind, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching,

Neither shall he multiply to himself wives, that his heart turn not aside, - nor silver and gold, shall he multiply to himself greatly.

Now was it not, One, who made you who had, the residue of the spirit? What, then, of that One? He was seeking a godly seed. Therefore should ye take heed to your spirit, and, with the wife of thy youth, do not thou deal treacherously.

Let, ministers, be husbands of, one wife, over children, presiding, well, and over their own houses;

If anyone is unaccusable, a husband of, one wife, having children that believe, who are not charged with riotous excess, nor insubordinate;