27 Bible Verses about Loving Your Wife

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

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

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

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

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

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

But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife,

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

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

And the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins."

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

Jacob loved Rachel. And 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 does the church,

a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

But you say, "Why does he not?" Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

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 hates her

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband