30 Bible Verses about Love, In Relationships

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

Let wives [be subject] to their husbands as to the Lord,

In like manner let the husbands [do], living together in knowledge with the wife as with a vessel of less strength, deeming them precious, co-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

Husbands, love your wives as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify it, purifying it with the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy and blameless.

For I am zealous for you with a godly zeal, for I joined you, a chaste virgin, to one husband, to present to Christ;

Let us rejoice and be glad, and give glory to him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and his wife has prepared herself,

But Joseph her husband being a righteous man, and not wishing to make her an example, was designing to put her away privately.

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

But I tell you, that whoever puts away his wife, except for adultery, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries her that is put away, commits adultery.

that you should abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication, from which if you keep yourselves you will do well. Farewell.

Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature, and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural enjoyment of the female, became the subjects of inordinate desires for each other, males with males committing indecency, and receiving in return the recompense of their error which was fit.

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.

Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.

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

Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named among you, as becomes saints,

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,

For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

Marriage is honorable in all, and married life without blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

And I tell you, that whoever puts away his wife, except for adultery, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her that is put away, commits adultery.

And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and marries another, commits adultery with her; and if a woman puts away her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.

Every one that puts away his wife and marries another, commits adultery; and he that marries a woman put away from a husband, commits adultery.

But the married I charge, not I, but the Lord, Let not a wife separate from her husband, and also if she is separated let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to the husband, and let not a husband leave his wife.

but I tell you, that every one who looks on a woman to desire her inordinately, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

but if they have not self-control, let them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent.

who being without feeling have given themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.

not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not God,

It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach,

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

if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of intemperance or of insubordination.