Bible Verses About Marital Love

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 loveth his wife loveth himself.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

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

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

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

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

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

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

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

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.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

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.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

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

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

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

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