21 Bible Verses about Loving Your Wife

Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for her,

Husbands, love your wives, and never treat them harshly.

That is how husbands ought to love their wives--as if they were their own bodies. A man who loves his wife is really loving himself;

However, for you individually, let each love his wife as if she were himself; and the wife be careful to respect her husband.

A husband should give his wife her due, and a wife her husband.

For a man is the Head of his wife, as the Christ is the Head of the Church--being indeed himself the Savior of his Body.

How can you tell, wife, whether you may not save your husband? and how can you tell, husband, whether you may not save your wife?

While the married man is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please his wife;

Wives, submit to your husbands, as befits those who belong to the Lord.

Again, those of you who are married men should live considerately with their wives, showing due regard to their sex, as weaker than their own, and not forgetting that they share with you in the gift of Life. Then you will be able to pray without hindrance.

And live a life of love, following the example of the Christ, who loved you and gave himself for you as 'an offering and a sacrifice to God, that should be fragrant and acceptable.'

Wives should submit to their husbands as submitting 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 want information on any point, they should ask their husbands about it at home; for it is unbecoming for a married woman to speak at a meeting of the Church.

For no one ever yet hated his own body. But every one feeds his body and cares for it, just as the Christ for the Church;

'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife; and the man and his wife shall become one.'

To make her holy, after purifying her by the Washing with the Water, according to his promise;

Again, you married women should submit to your husbands, so that if any of them reject the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over, by the conduct of their wives,

And submit to one another from reverence for him.

And a woman who is married to a man, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with her, should not divorce her husband.

To those who are married my direction is-yet it is not mine, but the Master's-that a woman is not to leave her husband