Bible Verses about Relationships

Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of… Ecclesiastes 4:12

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Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 friendship strength
A wife of noble character who can find?
She is worth far more than rubies.
Proverbs 31:10 valuable marriage

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.
Ecclesiastes 4:10 friendship neighbor
You are altogether beautiful, my darling;
there is no flaw in you.
Song of songs 4:7 beauty marriage
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.
2 Peter 1:5-7 faith goodness self-control
Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor.
Ecclesiastes 4:9 friendship work
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.
Ephesians 5:25-26 love purification marriage
May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12 love neighbor
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:12 law neighbor prophecy
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Colossians 3:18-19 humility marriage
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:14 law righteousness light
Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 19:14 money
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Genesis 2:18 creation marriage
But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2 desires marriage sexuality
As iron sharpens iron,
so one person sharpens another.
Proverbs 27:17 friendship mind
Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10 obedience reward
Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5:8 family children
A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
Proverbs 17:17 friendship family
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Ephesians 5:22-23 marriage Jesus salvation
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:28 marriage body
A good name is more desirable than great riches;
to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
Proverbs 22:1 money materialism
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:33 marriage
‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 19:18b-19 law love family