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 reverence her husband.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: 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 saviour of the body.

When a man hath 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 cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be 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 to her.

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

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his 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.

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

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

And the woman which hath an husband that believeth 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 thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

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

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

For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour 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 which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Let all your things be done with charity.

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

Likewise, ye 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 conversation of the wives;

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

Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye 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 clave 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 remaineth, 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 and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I 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, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth 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 contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;