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 to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to 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 hath newly taken a 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 his wife which he hath taken.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; 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 to 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 dower and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to me: but give me the damsel for a wife.

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

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

But he that is married, is anxious 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 hath a husband that believeth not, and if he is 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 to 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 to 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 how 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 honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

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

Let all your things be done with charity.

Yet ye say, Why? 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 deportment of the wives;

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

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

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to 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 long-suffering, forbearing one another in love;

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

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

He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly, because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

Nevertheless, to avoid lewdness, 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 honor preferring one another;