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100  Verses about Loving A Married Man

 

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 87 helpful votes 

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Proverbs 6:32 ESV / 74 helpful votes 

He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 63 helpful votes 

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 47 helpful votes 

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Deuteronomy 5:21 ESV / 46 helpful votes 

“‘And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.’

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 45 helpful votes 

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 45 helpful votes 

“You shall not commit adultery.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 39 helpful votes 

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 38 helpful votes 

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Romans 7:2 ESV / 36 helpful votes 

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 30 helpful votes 

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Psalm 101:7 ESV / 29 helpful votes 

No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 27 helpful votes 

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 26 helpful votes 

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes 

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes 

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes 

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 22 helpful votes 

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 19 helpful votes 

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 19 helpful votes 

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 19 helpful votes 

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Mark 10:6-9 ESV / 19 helpful votes 

But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 19 helpful votes 

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Colossians 3:18-19 ESV / 18 helpful votes 

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 17 helpful votes 

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 17 helpful votes 

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 16 helpful votes 

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

Deuteronomy 24:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes 

“When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 15 helpful votes 

“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Genesis 1:27-28 ESV / 15 helpful votes 

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Luke 16:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Matthew 19:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

And said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Hebrews 13:4-7 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?” Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ...

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Proverbs 30:18-19 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

Let all that you do be done in love.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Malachi 2:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.

Isaiah 54:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.

Proverbs 20:6-7 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find? The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Mark 10:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

Genesis 2:22-24 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

John 15:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Ephesians 5:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Song of Solomon 4:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

Song of Solomon 1:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;

Psalm 143:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Exodus 21:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.

Genesis 24:67 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

1 Corinthians 7:8-9 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

1 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

John 15:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Mark 10:11-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Revelation 19:7-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”

1 John 4:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Colossians 3:9-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Ephesians 5:32-33 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Mark 10:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

Matthew 19:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

Song of Solomon 8:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

Song of Solomon 4:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where 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. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

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