What Does the Bible Say About Loving Your Spouse?

Ephesians 5:21-33 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. 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, ...

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 3 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 / 3 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 2 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.

Matthew 19:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

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.

James 1:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;

Matthew 18:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

15 Bible Verses about Loving Your Spouse

Ephesians 5:21-33 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 18:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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15 Bible Verses about Loving Your Spouse

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Ephesians 5:21-33 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 18:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote