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15 Bible Verses About a Relationship With Your Girlfriend

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  • The Bible’s instructions on love between a man and a woman are addressed to husbands and wives, so a dating couple draws on its passages about love, restraint, speech and forgiveness.
  • Song of Solomon 2:7, “Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires,” is a charge the woman repeats at 3:5 and 8:4.
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:3-6 treats sexual restraint as a matter of not wronging or taking advantage of the other person.
  • Ephesians 5:25 measures a husband’s love by Christ, who “gave himself up” for the church, and 1 Peter 3:7 ties a husband’s treatment of his wife to his prayers.
  • Amos 3:3 and Jeremiah 29:11 come from a prophecy against Israel and a letter to the exiles in Babylon.

The Bible addresses husbands and wives rather than boyfriends and girlfriends, so its teaching on a relationship with a girlfriend comes from passages on love, restraint, speech and forgiveness. Love is described in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 and Song of Solomon 8:7, and Song of Solomon 2:7 asks that love not be awakened before its time. Paul sets out sexual restraint in 1 Thessalonians 4:3-6, and Ephesians 5:25 and 1 Peter 3:7 tell husbands how to treat their wives. Most of…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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