40 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

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

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she respect her husband.

And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

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

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

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

When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is at liberty 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 for her.

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

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

Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as you shall say unto me: but give me the damsel for my wife.

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

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

And the woman who has a husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

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

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

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

Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fitting in the Lord.

And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.

For how do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?

Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband dies, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Let all your things be done with love.

Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously: yet is she your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conduct of the wives;

If any man takes a wife, and goes in unto her, and hates her,

Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, You shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clung unto these in love.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

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

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.

He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

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

But if they cannot have self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Be tender loving one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;