Bible verses about Love

Love in Marriage

Covenant love between husband and wife.

10 verses · World English Bible, with the American Standard Version beneath

  1. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

    Ephesians 5:25

    ASV Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

  2. Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

    Ephesians 5:28

    ASV Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

  3. Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

    Ephesians 5:33

    ASV Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

  4. Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

    Colossians 3:19

    ASV Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

  5. Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

    Genesis 2:24

    ASV Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  6. Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

    Song of Solomon 8:6–7

    ASV Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah. Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be contemned.

  7. My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

    Song of Solomon 2:16

    ASV My beloved is mine, and I am his: He feedeth his flock among the lilies.

  8. Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

    Proverbs 5:18–19

    ASV Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

  9. Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

    Proverbs 31:10–11

    ASV A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he shall have no lack of gain.

  10. Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.

    1 Corinthians 7:3

    ASV Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.