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 do not be embittered against them.

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

Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights, and likewise a wife to her husband.

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church -- he himself being the savior of the body.

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife --

For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,

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

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.

The Lord said to me, "Go, show love to your wife again, even though she loves another man and continually commits adultery. Likewise, the Lord loves the Israelites although they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols."

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Wives, submit to your 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 they want to find out about something, they should ask their husbands at home, because it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said, "I'll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel."

For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.

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

Yet you ask, "Why?" The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.

to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,

Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and then rejects her,

In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live,

and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him.

To the married I give this command -- not I, but the Lord -- a wife should not divorce a husband