What Does the Bible Say About Love Between Husband And Wife?

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Genesis 2:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

Ephesians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.

Romans 13:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 22:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, ...

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” ...

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Psalm 127:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Genesis 29:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 1 helpful vote

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

34 Bible Verses about Love Between Husband And Wife

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Genesis 2:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 13:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 29:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Love Between Husband And Wife

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1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Genesis 2:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 13:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 29:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 7:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote