Bible Verses About Love and Marriage

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

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

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

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

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

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

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

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

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

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

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

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

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

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

So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

These things I command you, that ye love one another.

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

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.