40 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,

But also let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife that she defers to her husband.

And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Let the husband give to the wife proper kindness, and likewise the wife also to the husband.

This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.

When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any duty. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife whom he has taken.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives, but if her husband sleeps in death, she is at liberty to be remarried to whom she will, only in the Lord.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him a few days, for the love he had for her.

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

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

Heap upon me ever so much price and dowry, and I will give according as you shall say to me. But give me the girl for a wife.

The wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

And to the married I command (not I, but the Lord), a woman not to be separated from her husband.

But the one who is married cares for the things of the world, how to please his wife.

And the two of them shall be one flesh. So then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

And the woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is pleased to dwell with her, do not let her leave him.

"For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh."

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in Heaven.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; else your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

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

And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.

For what do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? Or what do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?

Likewise, husbands, live together according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, the female, as truly being co-heirs together of the grace of life, not cutting off your prayers.

For the married woman was bound by law to the living husband. But if the husband is dead, she is set free from the law of her husband.

Let all your things be done in charity.

Yet you say, Why? Because Jehovah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and your covenant wife.

Likewise, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the Word, they may also be won without the Word by the conduct of the wives,

If any man takes a wife and goes in to her, and hates her,

of the nations which Jehovah had said to the sons of Israel, You shall not go in to them, and they shall not go in to you; surely they will turn away your heart after their gods. Solomon clung to these in love.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

But this I say, brothers, The time is short. It remains that both those who have wives should be as not having one.

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears him rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. Then my joy is fulfilled.

But, because of the fornications, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

in brotherly love to one another, loving fervently, having led one another in honor.