40 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

and above all these things, have love, which is a bond of the perfection,

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and one doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;

and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'

The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;

for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven.

for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

And Jacob loveth Rachel, and saith, 'I serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter:'

for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them, according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

let all your things be done in love.

And ye have said, 'Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

'When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her,

of the nations of which Jehovah said unto the sons of Israel, 'Ye do not go in to them, and they do not go in to you; surely they turn aside your heart after their gods;' to them hath Solomon cleaved for love.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;