Top 30 Bible Verses about Relationship and Marriage

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

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the LORD.

And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up.

Yet you say, For what reason? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, with whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies.

So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is as strong as death, jealousy as cruel as the grave. Its flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened calf with hatred.

So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.

We love Him because He first loved us.

Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

My beloved is mine, and I am his. He feeds his flock among the lilies.

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Let all that you do be done with love.

That they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children.

Fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another.

Jesus said to him, You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

I found the one whom my soul loves; I held him and would not let him go.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Love consists in this: that two solitudes protect and touch each other.