57 Bible Verses about Love, In Relationships

Wives, submit your own selves unto your own husbands, as it is comely in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter unto them.

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

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go a warfare neither shall be charged with any business: but shall be free at home one year and rejoice with his wife which he hath taken.

Let thy well be blessed; and be glad with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind, and pleasant roe: let her breasts alway satisfy thee, and hold thee ever content with her love. My son, why wilt thou have pleasure in a harlot, and embrace the bosom of another woman?

Women: submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Likewise, ye men, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as unto them that are heirs also of the grace of life, that your prayers be not let.

For he that made thee, shall be thy LORD and husband, whose name is the LORD of Hosts: and thine avenger shall be even the holy one of Israel, the LORD of the whole world.

Husbands: love your wives, even as Christ loved the congregation, and gave himself for it, to sanctify it, and cleansed it in the fountain of water through the word, to make it unto himself a glorious congregation without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should be holy and without blame.

And like as a young man taketh a daughter to marriage, so shall God marry himself unto thy sons. And as a bridegroom is glad of his bride, so shall God rejoice over thee.

O ye shrinking children, turn again, sayeth the LORD: and I will be married with you. For I will take one out of the city, and two out of one generation from among you, and bring you out of Zion:

Now when I went by thee, and looked upon thee: behold, thy time was come; yea, even the time to vow thee. Then spread I my clothes over thee, to cover thy dishonesty: Yea, I made an oath unto thee, and married myself with thee, sayeth the LORD God; and so thou becamest mine own.

Thus will I marry thee unto mine own self forevermore: yea even to myself will I marry thee, in righteousness, in equity, in loving-kindness, and mercy.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I coupled you to one man, to make you a chaste virgin to Christ:

Let us be glad and rejoice and give honour to him: for the marriage of the lamb is come, and his wife made herself ready.

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

For the jealousy and wrath of the man will not be intreated; no, though thou wouldest offer him great gifts to make amends, he will not receive them.

Then Isaac brought her in to his mother Sara's tent, and took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her: and so was Isaac comforted over his mother.

And Jacob loved her well, and said, "I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy youngest daughter."

And after that he loved a woman, upon the river of Sorek, called Delilah

But unto Hannah he gave a portion with a heavy cheer, for he loved her; nevertheless the LORD had made her barren.

Then said the LORD to me, "Go yet thy way and vow an adulterous woman, whom thy neighbour loveth as the LORD doth the children of Israel: howbeit, they have respect to strange gods, and love the wine cans."

Then Joseph her husband, being a perfect man, and loath to make an example of her, was minded to put her away secretly.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his wife: and let every woman have her husband.

"'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, for that is abomination.

"'Thou shalt not pollute thy daughter, that thou wouldest maintain her to be an whore: lest the land fall to whoredom, and wax full of wickedness.

There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor whorekeeper of the sons of Israel. Thou shalt neither bring the hire of an whore nor the price of a dog into the house of the LORD thy God, in no manner of vow: for even both of them are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

But I say unto you, Whosoever put away his wife, except it be for fornication, causeth her to break matrimony. And whosoever marryeth her that is divorced breaketh wedlock.

that is to say: that ye abstain from things offered to images, from blood, from strangled and fornication. From which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. So fare ye well."

For this cause, God gave them up unto shameful lusts. For even their women did change the natural use unto the unnatural. And likewise also the men left the natural use of the woman, and burnt in their lusts, one on another, among themselves. And man with man wrought filthiness: and received in themselves the reward of their error, as it was according.

There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife.

Flee fornication. All sins that a man doth, are without the body. But he that is a fornicator, sinneth against his own body.

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

So that fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, be not once named among you, as it becometh saints:

Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, unnatural lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is worshipping of idols:

For this is the will of God, even that ye should be holy, and that ye should abstain from fornication,

"Thou shalt not break wedlock.

He that breaketh wedlock with another man's wife shall die for it, because he hath broke wedlock with his neighbour's wife, and so shall she likewise.

'Thou shalt not break wedlock.

that they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the harlot:

Do ye not remember how that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. For neither fornicators, neither worshippers of images, neither whoremongers, neither weaklings, neither abusers of themselves with mankind,

Let wedlock be had in price in all points, and let the chamber be undefiled: for whore keepers and adulterers God will judge.

I say therefore unto you, whosoever putteth away his wife, except it be for fornication, and marrieth another, breaketh wedlock. And whosoever marrieth her which is divorced, doth commit adultery."

If thou hatest her, put her away, sayeth the LORD God of Israel and give her a clothing for the scorn, sayeth the LORD of Hosts. Look well then to your spirit, and despise her not.

And he said unto them, "Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, breaketh wedlock to her-ward. And if a woman forsake her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery."

Whosoever forsaketh his wife, and marrieth another, breaketh matrimony. And every man which marrieth her that is divorced from her husband committeth adultery also.

Unto the married command not I, but the Lord: that the wife separate not herself from the man. If she separate herself, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled unto her husband again. And let not the husband put away his wife from him.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a wife lusting after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not look upon a damsel.

that thou lust not after her beauty in thine heart, and lest thou be taken with her fair looks.

but and if they cannot abstain, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn.

Which, being past repentance, have given themselves unto wantonness, to work all manner of uncleanness even with greediness.

and not in the lust of concupiscence, as do the heathen, which know not God,

Yea, and a bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, honestly appareled, harborous, apt to teach,

Also he shall not have too many wives, lest his heart turn away, neither shall he gather him silver and gold too much.

So did not the one, and yet had he an excellent spirit. What did then the one? He sought the seed promised of God. Therefore look well to your spirit, and let no man despise the wife of his youth.

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife and such as rule their children well, and their own households.

If any be faultless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.