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16 Bible Verses About Loving Your Partner

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  • Genesis 2:24 describes a man leaving his parents to be united to his wife as one flesh, and Jesus quotes it in Mark 10 and Matthew 19 when he is asked about divorce.
  • Ephesians 5:22-24 tells wives to submit to their husbands, and Ephesians 5:25 tells husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church and “gave himself up for her.”
  • 1 Corinthians 7:3-4 gives the husband and the wife the same claim on each other, and 1 Corinthians 7:5 allows abstaining only by mutual consent and for a time.
  • Proverbs 5:18-19 answers a warning against adultery with delight in “the wife of your youth.”
  • 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 sits between two chapters on spiritual gifts in a letter to the church in Corinth.

The Bible’s commands about loving a partner are given to husbands and wives. Genesis calls the two “one flesh” (Genesis 2:24), and Jesus says no one should separate them (Mark 10:9). Paul tells husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church (Ephesians 5:25) and gives husband and wife the same claim on each other (1 Corinthians 7:3-4). Proverbs 5:18-19 and the Song of Solomon speak of desire and delight between lovers, and 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 and 1 Peter…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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