40 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

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

Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights, and likewise a wife to her husband.

This mystery is great -- but I am actually 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 is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.

A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes (only someone in the Lord).

So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.

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

In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I'll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!"

and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.

To the married I give this command -- not I, but the Lord -- a wife should not divorce a husband

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,

and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will 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 in heaven.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife --

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said, "I'll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel."

For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

Everything you do should be done in love.

Yet you ask, "Why?" The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.

In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live,

Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and then rejects her,

They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, "You must not establish friendly relations with them! If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods." But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them.

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.

Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete.

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.

Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.