Bible Verses about “love and marriage”
The Bible contains 37 verses about love and marriage across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”
“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
“You husbands, in the same way, 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.”
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”
“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”
“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”
“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”
“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”
“Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”
“For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;”
“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”
“Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."”
“"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 the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.”
“that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,”
“that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
“But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.”
“because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.”
“Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.”
“This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.”
“Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.”
“Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.”
“And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.”
“Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.”
“Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”
“Let all that you do be done in love.”