27 Bible Verses about Loving Your Wife

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? 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.

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

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

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 conversation of the wives;

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

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