30 Bible Verses about Love, In Relationships

Dames, be submissive to your husbands, as becomes christians. husbands, love your wives, and do not exasperate them.

let married women be submissive to their husbands, out of regard to the Lord.

You husbands, do you on your part behave with prudence towards your wives: who being of a more delicate make, ought to be treated with the greater tenderness: and consider they are equally intitled to the evangelical gifts, that your prayers may not be frustrated.

You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her: to sanctify and purify her by the ablution of his word, that he himself might make her appear illustrious to his own eye, a church without spot, or any thing like a defect; so as to be holy and irreprehensible.

for I am jealous over you with religious jealousy: since I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

let us rejoyce, and triumph, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the lamb is come, and his spouse is already adorn'd.

but Joseph her husband, being a good-natur'd man, and unwilling to expose her to publick shame, he designed to put her away privately.

I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband.

but I say unto you, whoever shall put away his wife, except in the case of adultery, is the occasion of her being an adulteress, and he that shall marry her is an adulterer.

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the flesh of strangled animals, and from fornication: you will do well to preserve your selves from these practices. farewel.

amen. for this cause God gave them up to infamous passions: for even the sex perverted the instinct of nature: and the men unnaturally leaving the sex, were inflamed with mutual passions, which they shamefully indulged, and received in their own persons, the retribution that was justly due to such enormities.

we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife.

flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs.

neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day.

But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal,

Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish.

and I tell you, that whoever shall put away his wife, except it be for adultery, and shall marry another, he committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her that is put away, causeth her to commit adultery.

whoever repudiates his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her: and if a woman quits her husband and is married to another, she committeth adultery.

whoever repudiates his wife, and marries another, is an adulterer. and he that marries her, that is repudiated by her husband, is an adulterer.

as to the married, I enjoin this rule, not as from my self, but from the Lord, that a woman should not leave her husband: but if she has separated herself, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

but I tell you, that whosoever looks on a woman with impure desires is already guilty of approving the fact.

but if they have not the gift, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be in pain.

who without remorse, have abandon'd themselves to brutality, in gratifying every lewd unnatural passion.

person unsullied by the vices of the Gentiles, who know not God:

a bishop therefore ought to be of an unspotted character, to have but one wife, to be sober, prudent, grave, hospitable, and qualified for teaching:

a deacon must have but one wife, and govern his children, and the rest of the family in a proper manner.

to chuse such as are without reproach, married to but one wife, whose children are obedient, not accused of debauchery, nor unruly.