30 Bible Verses about Love, In Relationships

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as becometh you in the Lord: and ye husbands, love your wives, and be not embittered against them.

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

Ye husbands likewise, dwell with them according to knowledge, yielding due respect to the wife as the weaker vessel, and as joint-heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave up Himself for it: to sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that He might prepare it for Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should be holy and unblameable.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, having espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Let us rejoice and exult and give glory to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

but Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was inclined to break off the contract with her privately;

Nevertheless to prevent whoredoms, let every one have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

but I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except on account of whoredom, tempteth her to commit adultery; and if any man marry her that is divorced, he committeth adultery.

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from fornication: from which ye will do well to keep yourselves. Farewel.

Therefore God gave them up to infamous passions: for even their women changed the natural use into that which is unnatural, and the men likewise, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust to one another, men with men committing shame, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their error which they deserved.

It is commonly reported that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not named even amongst the heathens, that one should have his father's wife.

Flee from whoredom. Every other sin, that a man committeth, is without the body; but he, that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body.

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

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or inordinate desire, let it not be even named among you; for so it becometh saints:

Mortify therefore your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, disorderly passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is indeed idolatry:

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

What! know ye 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 the bed is not defiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

and I tell you, that whosoever putteth away his wife, except for whoredom, and marrieth another, committeth adultery; and he that marrieth her so put away committeth adultery.

and He told them, Whoever putteth away his wife and marrieth another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman be divorced from her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery; and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

But those that are married, not I command, but the Lord, that the wife be not separated from her husband; (but if she separate, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and that the husband put not away his wife.

but I tell you, that whosoever looketh on a woman, so as to lust after her, hath already debauched her in his heart.

But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with lust.

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to commit all uncleanness with greediness.

not in the passion of lust, like the heathens who know not God.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, sober, prudent, grave,

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

to wit, if any one be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of debauchery, or unruly.