Bible Verses About Loving Your Wife
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for loving your wife, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,355 votes, led by 1 Peter 3:7. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Loving Your Wife
1 Peter 3:7466 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.
Ephesians 5:25462 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Colossians 3:19382 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8315 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Genesis 2:24288 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:25-28276 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Proverbs 31:10211 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Ephesians 5:28201 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 5:33192 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 13:4190 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40183 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Genesis 2:18161 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.
Ephesians 5:31149 votes
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:21139 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Ephesians 5:22138 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Proverbs 18:22113 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
1 Peter 4:8109 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Matthew 19:9106 votes
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Ephesians 4:32105 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Ecclesiastes 9:9102 votes
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Proverbs 5:18-1999 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
1 Corinthians 7:10-1598 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
1 Corinthians 7:387 votes
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Ephesians 6:484 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Colossians 3:1-2584 votes
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
What does the Bible say about loving your wife?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 3:7 on the subject of loving your wife. Across 8,355 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:25, Colossians 3:19, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.