40 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

Husbands: love your wives, even as Christ loved the congregation, and gave himself for it,

Nevertheless, do ye so that every one of you love his wife truly even as himself: And let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness,

Let the man give unto the wife due benevolence. Likewise also the wife unto the man.

This is a great secret, but I speak between Christ and the congregation.

For the husband is the wife's head, even as Christ is the head of the congregation, and the same is the saviour of the body.

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go a warfare neither shall be charged with any business: but shall be free at home one year and rejoice with his wife which he hath taken.

The wife is bound to the law as long as her husband liveth. If her husband sleep, she is at liberty to marry with 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 unto them.

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

Ask freely of me both the dowry and gifts, and I will give according as ye say unto me, and give me the damsel to wife."

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

Unto the married command not I, but the Lord: that the wife separate not herself from the man.

but he that hath married, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

and they twain shall be made one flesh.' So then are they now not twain, but one flesh.

And the woman which hath to her husband an infidel, if he consent to dwell with her, let her not put him away.

"For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall continue with his wife, and two shall be made one flesh."

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are married: 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. Or else were your children unclean: but now are they pure.

Let thy well be blessed; and be glad with the wife of thy youth.

Wives, submit your own selves unto your own husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.

And Jacob loved her well, and said, "I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy youngest daughter."

For how knowest thou o woman, whether thou shalt save that man or no? Other, how knowest thou o man, whether thou shalt save that woman or no?

Likewise, ye men, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as unto them that are heirs also of the grace of life, that your prayers be not let.

For the woman which is in subjection to a man, is bound by the law to the man, as long as he liveth. If the man be dead, she is loosed from the law of the man.

Let all your business be done in love.

And yet ye say, 'Wherefore?' Even because that whereas the LORD made a covenant betwixt thee and the wife of thy youth, thou hast despised her: Yet is she thine own companion and married wife.

Likewise, let the wives be in subjection to their husbands, that even they which believe not the word, may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives:

If a man take a wife, and when he hath lain with her hate her,

even of nations of which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, "See ye come not at them, nor let them come to you: for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless to such Solomon clave and fell in love with them.

Women: submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

This say I, brethren: the time is short. It remaineth that they which have wives, be as though they had none:

in all humbleness of mind, and meekness, and long suffering, forbearing one another through love,

But and if thou take a wife, thou sinnest not. Likewise if a virgin marry, she sinneth not. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in their flesh: but I saver you.

Drink of the water of thine own well, and of the rivers that run out of thine own springs.

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: But the friend of the bridegroom which standeth by and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this, my joy, is fulfilled.

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

but and if they cannot abstain, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn.

Be kind one to another, with brotherly love. In giving honour go one before another.