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Marital Love

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1 Peter 3:7–12

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Ephesians 5:18

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

Galatians 5:19–21

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

John 13:34

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

1 Thessalonians 4:3–5

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:13

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

1 Corinthians 6:9–10

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Matthew 5:28

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Ephesians 5:1–3

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.