42 Bible Verses about spouse

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,

The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not send her husband away.

(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife.

But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband

A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.”

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

“For your husband is your Maker,
Whose name is the Lord of hosts;
And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel,
Who is called the God of all the earth.

asking, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother.’

“When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.

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

Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.

You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.

House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers,
But a prudent wife is from the Lord.

So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church.

“Your lips, my bride, drip honey;
Honey and milk are under your tongue,
And the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

“For the Lord has called you,
Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”
Says your God.

Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun.

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

The disciples *said to Him, “If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry.”

“Therefore I will give their wives to others,
Their fields to new owners;
Because from the least even to the greatest
Everyone is greedy for gain;
From the prophet even to the priest
Everyone practices deceit.

Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease.

The heart of her husband trusts in her,
And he will have no lack of gain.

You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!