40 Bible Verses about Love Marriage

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

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Let the husband fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the savior of the body.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

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

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

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

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

Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world?how she may please her husband.

But to the married I command?not I, but the Lord?that the wife not leave her husband

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

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

The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven.

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

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

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

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

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

You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Let all that you do be done in love.

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

In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any do not obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

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

of the nations concerning which the LORD said to the children of Israel, "You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.

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

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

Drink water out of your own cistern, running water 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. So this joy of mine is now complete.

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

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; outdo one another in showing honor;