Bible Verses About Relationships
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
47 Bible verses about relationships
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Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Ephesians 5:21 KJV
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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:25 KJV
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So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 5:28 KJV
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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 5:33 KJV
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2With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:2-3 KJV
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Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Ephesians 4:29 KJV
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And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Ephesians 4:32 KJV
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12Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Colossians 3:12-14 KJV
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18Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. 19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. 20Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. 21Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Colossians 3:18-21 KJV
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4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 KJV
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7Likewise, 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. 8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
1 Peter 3:7-8 KJV
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And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8 KJV
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And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Genesis 2:18 KJV
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24 KJV
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5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Matthew 19:5-6 KJV
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What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Mark 10:9 KJV
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A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 15:1 KJV
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He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 17:9 KJV
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Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Proverbs 18:22 KJV
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House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Proverbs 19:14 KJV
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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 21:9 KJV
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A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Proverbs 27:15 KJV
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10Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. 11The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Proverbs 31:10-11 KJV
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Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Romans 12:10 KJV
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Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Romans 12:16 KJV
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If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Romans 12:18 KJV
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Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2 KJV
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3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Philippians 2:3-4 KJV
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Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Ecclesiastes 4:9 KJV
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And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 KJV
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Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Hebrews 13:4 KJV
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Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 KJV
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
James 1:19 KJV
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My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 2:16 KJV
These Bible verses about relationships take the subject broadly: marriage, family, and the ordinary work of living alongside other people without wearing each other down. Ephesians 4 and 5 and Colossians 3 supply the household passages, Proverbs adds its blunt observations about quarrelsome company, and Genesis 2 provides the verse about leaving and cleaving that most weddings use. Anyone looking for Bible verses about marriage will find those passages in the same list. The instruction that recurs across all of them is to bear with one another and forgive.