Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.
Ephesians 5:25·KJV
7 verses · KJV
From the garden of Eden to the marriage supper of the Lamb, Scripture frames marriage as covenant, companionship, and mutual self-giving. These are the most-requested passages for wedding ceremonies, vows, and couple's devotionals.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.