40 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

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

Only you also, each one [of you], must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife {must respect} her husband.

And to all these [things] [add] love, which is [the] bond of perfection.

The husband must fulfill his obligation to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

(This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.)

because [the] husband is [the] head of the wife, as also Christ [is the] head of the church (he himself [being the] Savior of the body).

"When a man takes a new wife he shall not go out with the army, and {he shall not be obligated with anything}; he shall be free from obligation, {to stay at home} for one year, and he shall bring joy [to] his wife that he took.

A wife is bound for as long a time [as] her husband lives. But if her husband {dies}, she is free to marry whomever she wishes, only in the Lord.

And Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they were as a few days in his eyes because he loved her.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself.

{Make the bride price and gift as high as you like}; I will give what you say to me. But give me the girl as a wife."

and he is divided. And the unmarried woman or the virgin cares for the things of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

To the married I command--not I, but the Lord--a wife must not separate from [her] husband.

But the one who is married cares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two but one flesh.

And if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she must not divorce her husband.

"For this [reason] a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

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

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother, since otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as 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, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Husbands, in the same way live with [your wives] {knowledgeably}, as with the weaker female vessel, showing [them] honor as fellow heirs also of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

For the married woman is bound by law to [her] husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband.

All your [actions] must be done in love.

But you ask, "{For what reason}?" Because Yahweh stands as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been unfaithful, even though she [is] your marriage partner and {your wife by covenant}.

In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the conduct of their wives,

"If a man takes a woman and {he has sex with her}, but [he] then {dislikes her},

from the nations which Yahweh had said to the {Israelites}, "You shall not {marry them}, and they shall not {marry you}. They will certainly turn your heart after other gods." But Solomon clung to them to love.

--wives to their own husbands as to the Lord,

But I say this, brothers: the time is shortened, that from now on even those who have wives should be as [if they] do not have [wives],

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love,

But if you marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

Drink water from your [own] cistern and flowing waters from inside your own well.

The one who 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. So this joy of mine is complete.

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

But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn [with sexual desire].

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,