27 Bible Verses about Loving Your Wife

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

Husbands, love your wives and don’t be bitter toward them.

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

To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.

Let your fountain be blessed,
and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.

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

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world—how he may please his wife—

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

Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives with an understanding of their weaker nature yet showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

Then the Lord said to me, “Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”

And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

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

The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

And if they want to learn something, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church meeting.

Jacob loved Rachel, so he answered Laban, “I’ll work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

A loving doe, a graceful fawn—
let her breasts always satisfy you;
be lost in her love forever.

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

Yet you ask, “For what reason?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have acted treacherously against her, though she was your marriage partner and your wife by covenant.

to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.

“If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,

In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live

submitting to one another
in the fear of Christ.

Also, if any woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not leave her husband.

I command the married—not I, but the Lord—a wife is not to leave her husband.