29 Bible Verses about Love, In Relationships

Wives, be subject to your husbands; that is your proper duty in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, do not be harsh to them.

Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord,

In the same way you husbands must be considerate in living with your wives, since they are the weaker sex; you must honour them as heirs equally with yourselves of the grace of Life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to consecrate her by cleansing her in the bath of baptism as she utters her confession, in order to have the church as his very own, standing before him in all her glory, with never a spot or wrinkle or any such flaw, but consecrated and unblemished.

for I feel a divine jealousy on your behalf; I betrothed you as a chaste maiden to present you to your one husband Christ,

Let us rejoice and triumph, let us give him the glory! For now comes the marriage of the Lamb; his bride has arrayed herself,

As Joseph her husband was a just man but unwilling to disgrace her, he resolved to divorce her secretly;

but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.

But I tell you, anyone who divorces his wife for any reason except unchastity makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

abstain from food that has been offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual vice. Keep clear of all this and you will prosper. Goodbye."

That is why God has given them up to vile passions; their women have exchanged the natural function of sex for what is unnatural, and in the same way the males have abandoned the natural use of women and flamed out in lust for one another, men perpetrating shameless acts with their own sex and getting in their own persons the due recompense of their perversity.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality such as is unknown even among pagans ??that a man has taken his father's wife!

Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.

Nor must we commit immorality, as some of them did ??and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them fell.

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,

What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites

Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

I tell you, whoever divorces his wife except for unchastity and marries another woman, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

and he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman is an adulterer to the former, and she is an adulteress if she divorces her husband and marries another man."

Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

For married people these are my instructions (and they are the Lord's, not mine). A wife is not to separate from her husband ??11 if she has separated, she must either remain single or be reconciled to him ??and a husband must not put away his wife.

But I tell you, any one who even looks with lust at a woman has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Still, if they cannot restrain themselves, let them marry. Better marry than be aflame with passion!

not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God ??6 no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.

Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher,

Deacons are only to be married once, and they must manage their children and households properly.

men who are above reproach, only once married, with children who believe and who are not liable to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate.