40 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife'see that she fear her husband.

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

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

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

and is divided.'so also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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

For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Let all that ye do be done in love.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your won husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

of the nations concerning which Jehovah said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, that standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is made full.

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;