40 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

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

But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.

And over all these, love, which is the bond of completion.

Let the husband return to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.

This is a great mystery: but I speak to Christ and to the church.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

When a man shall take a new wife, he shall not go out in the war, and nothing shall pass upon him for any word: he shall be free to his house one year, and gladden his wife whom he took.

The woman was bound by law for as much time as her husband lives; and if her husband be set to sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

And Jacob will serve for Rachel seven years, and they will be in his eyes as a few days in his loving her.

Men, love ye the wives, and be not embittered against them.

So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He loving his wife, loves himself.

Increase to me greatly the dowry and gift, and I will give according to that ye shall say to me; and ye shall give to me this maiden for a wife.

The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

And to the married I announce, (not I, but the Lord,) The wife not to be separated from the husband:

And he married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

And they two shall be in one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

And the woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he assents to dwell with her, let her not send him away.

For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

For in the rising up they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the messengers of God in heaven.

For the unbelieving husband was consecrated in the wife, and the unbelieving wife was consecrated in the husband: for then are our children unclean; and now are they holy.

Thy fountain shall be blessed: and rejoice from the wife of thy youth.

Women, place yourselves under your own husbands, as was permitted in the Lord.

And Jacob will love Rachel, and will say, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy daughter the small.

For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save the husband or what knowest thou, O hushand, if thou shalt save the wife?

Men, likewise, dwelling together according to knowledge, as showing honour to the weaker vessel, pertaining to woman, and as co-heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers be not cut off.

For a married woman is bound by the law to a living husband; and if the husband die, she is left inactive from the law of the husband.

Let all things be in love.

And ye said, For what? For that Jehovah testified between thee and between the wife of thy youth, which thou didst deal faithlessly against her, and she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant

Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word;

If any man shall take a wife, and went in to her and hated her,

From the nations which Jehovah said to the sons of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, and they shall not come in to you: surely they will turn your heart after their gods: to these Solomon joined to love.

Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

And this I say, brethren, the time is restricted; as to the rest, that they also having wives should be as not having;

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

And if also thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. And such shall have pressure to the flesh: and I spare you.

Drink water from thy pit, and flowing from the midst of thy well.

He having the bride is the bridegroom: and the friend of the bridegroom, standing and hearing him, rejoices with joy for the bridegroom's voice: therefore this my joy has been completed.

And, on account of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

And if they have not self command, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be set on fire.

In brotherly love, being kindly affectioned to one another; in honour preceding one another.