Bible Verses About Marriage and Love
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marriage and love, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,173 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Marriage and Love
1 Corinthians 13:4-7184 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Peter 3:787 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.
1 Peter 5:1087 votes
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Proverbs 3:1-3557 votes
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Ephesians 5:3355 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.
Ephesians 5:31-3251 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.
1 Peter 3:148 votes
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Romans 8:2845 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.
Colossians 3:12-1545 votes
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Ephesians 5:2842 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Romans 8:5-1536 votes
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 11:1035 votes
For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
Ephesians 4:2-335 votes
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
1 Peter 3:1-634 votes
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
James 1:2-423 votes
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
1 Peter 3:8-923 votes
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
1 Peter 2:24-2519 votes
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
1 Peter 1:13-2318 votes
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Romans 5:1-1117 votes
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
1 Corinthians 13:1317 votes
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1 Timothy 4:1-817 votes
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1 Peter 1:6-717 votes
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
John 3:1616 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.
Romans 5:816 votes
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Timothy 3:1215 votes
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
What does the Bible say about marriage and love?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 on the subject of marriage and love. Across 1,173 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:7, 1 Peter 5:10, Proverbs 3:1-35. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.