What Does the Bible Say About Love Your Spouse?

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 8 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.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 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; ...

James 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 14:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 3:16 ESV / 5 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.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ...

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 4 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. ...

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 4 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.

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

Ephesians 5:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Romans 7:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

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.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

34 Bible Verses about Love Your Spouse

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

James 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Love Your Spouse

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1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

James 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 1 helpful vote