Today we will be dealing with 20 Bible verses about true love between man and woman. True love is hard to find these days. What we have now is deceit. Man will deceive a woman into thinking he’s in love with her just because he wants to have sex with her. A woman will also deceive a man into thinking she’s in love with him, whereas what she wants is his money. Deceit and pretense have become the order of the day.
Meanwhile, this is not the type of love God wants us to have for one another. God wants us to express the type of love that He has towards mankind. The scripture said For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten son that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have everlasting life.
True love doesn’t bargain or negotiate. It is not placed on condition. It forgives easily and freely. Some men can’t forgive their wives when they are offended. Likewise, some women can forgive their husbands when they cross them. Genuine love doesn’t see mistakes and it tolerates regardless of the number of times you are offended. This is the type of love that Christ has for us. And this is the type of love that He wants us to have for one another.
A man must love and adore his wife wholeheartedly and a woman must love and respect her husband. The scripture has so much to say about true love between man and woman. We will highlight 20 Bible verses about true love between man and woman.
1. Ephesians 5:25-33
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, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
2. Malachi 2:14-15
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.
3. Proverbs 3:3-4
Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
4. Romans 12:10
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
5. Genesis 2:18–25
Then the LORD God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.’ … So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
6. Isaiah 54:5
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.
7. Proverbs 30:18-19
There are three things that amaze me—no, four things that I don’t understand: how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman.
8. Ruth 1:16-17
Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever 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. The Lord do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.
8. 1 John 4:12
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
9. Hebrews 10:24-25
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
10. 1 Peter 4:8
Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.
11. Ephesians 4:32
Be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.
12. 1 Peter 3:7
In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God’s gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.
13. Ecclesiastes 4:9
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?
14. Genesis 1:27-28
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.
15. Ephesians 5:25
For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her.
16. Ecclesiastes 4:12
Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
17. Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
18. Romans 13:8
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
19. 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
20. Song of Solomon 8:7
Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
