27 Bible Verses about Loving Your Wife

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

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

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

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she respect her husband.

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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.

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

For how do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?

But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fitting in the Lord.

Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her lover, and an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling fragrance.

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

He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is shameful for women to speak in the church.

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

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church:

Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

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

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

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

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

And the woman who has a husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: