What Does the Bible Say About Love Thy Wife?

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:17-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? ...

Ecclesiastes 9:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

Deuteronomy 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Titus 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

1 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Ephesians 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

1 Corinthians 16:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Acts 20:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

John 20:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

John 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

John 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Mark 16:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb.

Mark 12:1-44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. ...

Matthew 28:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Malachi 2:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.

Isaiah 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.”

1 Kings 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.

2 Samuel 12:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.

1 Samuel 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.

Deuteronomy 17:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God. “If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant, and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden, and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel, then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones. ...

Numbers 2:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “The people of Israel shall camp each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses. They shall camp facing the tent of meeting on every side. Those to camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the people of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab, his company as listed being 74,600. Those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar, the chief of the people of Issachar being Nethanel the son of Zuar, ...

Leviticus 18:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.

Titus 3:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

32 Bible Verses about Love Thy Wife

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 9:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 16:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 20:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 20:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 12:1-44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Kings 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Samuel 12:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 17:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 2:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 3:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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32 Bible Verses about Love Thy Wife

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Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 9:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 16:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 20:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 20:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 12:1-44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Kings 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Samuel 12:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 17:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 2:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 3:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote