There is no relationship manual that tells you how to overcome obstacles and strengthen the ties you have with your loved ones. Thankfully, Bible verses about love serve as excellent guides; these scriptures offer jewels of wisdom that can help you navigate the ups and downs of love, as well as convey your heartfelt thoughts to your future spouse. There are a number of wedding scriptures and Bible verses about love that touch on the subject of relationships that you may want to mention on your wedding day.
• Hebrews 10:24-25: “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
• Proverbs 30:18-19: “There are three things that amaze me—no, four things that I don’t understand: how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman.”
• 1 John 4:12: “No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”
• Proverbs 31:10: “Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.”
• Ruth 1:16-17: “Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.”
• Romans 12:10: “Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.”
• 1 Peter 4:8: “Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.”
• Ephesians 5:21: “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.”
• Ephesians 4:32: “Be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.”
• Genesis 2:18–25: “Then the LORD God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.’ … So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.”
• 1 Peter 3:7: “In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God’s gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.”
• A wife of noble character who can find?
She is worth far more than rubies.
Proverbs 31:10 | NIV | valuable marriage
• Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.
Ephesians 5:25-26 | NIV | love purification marriage
• So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:12 | NIV | law neighbor prophecy
• Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Colossians 3:18-19 | NIV | humility marriage
• The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Genesis 2:18 | NIV | creation marriage
• For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.
2 Peter 1:5-7 | NIV | faith goodness self-control
• Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:14 | NIV | law righteousness
• But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2 | NIV | desires marriage
• Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 | NIV | friendship strength
• As iron sharpens iron,
so one person sharpens another.
Proverbs 27:17 | NIV | friendship mind
• Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10 | NIV | obedience reward
• A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
Proverbs 17:17 | NIV | friendship family
• Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 19:14 | NIV | money
• Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Ephesians 5:22-23 | NIV | marriage Jesus salvation
• A good name is more desirable than great riches;
to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
Proverbs 22:1 | NIV | money materialism
• May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12 | NIV | love neighbor
• Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5:8 | NIV | family children
