27 Bible Verses about Loving Your Wife

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

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

So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.

Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

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

You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”

and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church.

Now Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

As a loving hind and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
Be exhilarated always with her love.

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

Yet you say, ‘For what reason?’ Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

“If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then turns against her,

In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,

and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not send her husband away.

But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband