Bible Verses About Love and Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for love and marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,082 votes, led by 1 Peter 4:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Love and Marriage
1 Peter 4:893 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Ephesians 5:2578 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:22-3363 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Proverbs 18:2256 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 13:4-750 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Ephesians 5:3350 votes
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Hebrews 13:450 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 13:1347 votes
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Colossians 3:1446 votes
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Genesis 2:2445 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Peter 3:745 votes
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
John 3:1643 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 Corinthians 13:1-1341 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 16:1441 votes
Let all your things be done with charity.
Colossians 3:18-1939 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Genesis 2:1838 votes
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Proverbs 31:1038 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
1 Corinthians 13:4-836 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Ecclesiastes 4:9-1233 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Mark 10:933 votes
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Ecclesiastes 4:1232 votes
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ephesians 4:2-332 votes
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Ephesians 5:2832 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Romans 8:2830 votes
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Ephesians 4:230 votes
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
What does the Bible say about love and marriage?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 4:8 on the subject of love and marriage. Across 2,082 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:25, Ephesians 5:22-33, Proverbs 18:22. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.