40 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

A newly married man will not have to go out with the army or undertake any business, but may be free for one year, living in his house for the comfort of his wife.

It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.

And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.

Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.

But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

And if a woman has a husband who is not a Christian, and it is his desire to go on living with her, let her not go away from her husband.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.

For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.

And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.

For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?

And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.

For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

Let all you do be done in love.

But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

Wives, be ruled by your husbands; so that even if some of them give no attention to the word, their hearts may be changed by the behaviour of their wives,

If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,

The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.

Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;

With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.

But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.

Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;