100 Bible Verses about Dating And Relationships

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 1,957 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; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 1,305 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 1,161 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 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. 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 2:18 ESV / 1,090 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.”

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 1,073 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Psalm 37:3-4 ESV / 1,016 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 868 helpful votes

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 798 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 724 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 614 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:5-7 ESV / 566 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 553 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Romans 12:9-10 ESV / 530 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 480 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Song of Solomon 2:7 ESV / 461 helpful votes

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

Psalm 46:5 ESV / 449 helpful votes

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.

Philippians 1:9-10 ESV / 420 helpful votes

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 394 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 383 helpful votes

Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 370 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.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 363 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Amos 3:3 ESV / 320 helpful votes

“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?

Mark 10:9 ESV / 288 helpful votes

What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 287 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 280 helpful votes

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Matthew 19:5 ESV / 277 helpful votes

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’?

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 273 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 255 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 240 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 227 helpful votes

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.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 202 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 31:10-11 ESV / 202 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 201 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.

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 201 helpful votes

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 199 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 189 helpful votes

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 185 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 184 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Psalm 138:8 ESV / 183 helpful votes

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

James 5:16 ESV / 181 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 180 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Ruth 1:16 ESV / 175 helpful votes

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.

John 3:16 ESV / 174 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.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 153 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 152 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 151 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.

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 140 helpful votes

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 137 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 134 helpful votes

And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

John 15:13 ESV / 127 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 123 helpful votes

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Song of Solomon 8:4 ESV / 122 helpful votes

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-4 ESV / 120 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 118 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 117 helpful votes

And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 116 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 113 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 113 helpful votes

Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

Job 31:1 ESV / 112 helpful votes

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 109 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 109 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Philippians 1:9 ESV / 106 helpful votes

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 105 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 104 helpful votes

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 103 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Romans 12:17 ESV / 103 helpful votes

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.

Colossians 3:18-19 ESV / 101 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 100 helpful votes

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Genesis 2:18-25 ESV / 98 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.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. ...

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 97 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 97 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Genesis 2:22 ESV / 97 helpful votes

And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

John 3:3 ESV / 96 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 96 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 95 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 5:9 ESV / 94 helpful votes

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—

Song of Solomon 4:9 ESV / 94 helpful votes

You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

Ephesians 5:24 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 89 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 89 helpful votes

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 89 helpful votes

Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 87 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 86 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 Timothy 5:1-7 ESV / 85 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, ...

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 81 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 81 helpful votes

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Ephesians 5:28 ESV / 79 helpful votes

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 76 helpful votes

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

Philippians 2:5 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 71 helpful votes

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 65 helpful votes

So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Deuteronomy 7:3-4 ESV / 64 helpful votes

You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 62 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

Matthew 19:5-6 ESV / 62 helpful votes

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.”

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 56 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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