27 Bible Verses about Loving Your Wife

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them, according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

And Jehovah saith unto me: 'Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah, the sons of Israel, and they are turning unto other gods, and are lovers of grape-cakes.'

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

'He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

And Jacob loveth Rachel, and saith, 'I serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter:'

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

And ye have said, 'Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying,

'When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her,

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;

and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband: