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25 Christian marriage quotes from the Bible

This compilation of Christian marriage quotes features beautiful and meaningful Bible verses about love and marriage.

A back view of a married couple facing each other after reading these Christian marriage quotes from the Bible

If you’ve been searching for Christian marriage quotes that are beautiful and meaningful, you’ve come to the right place.

This compilation provides my favorite Bible verses about love and marriage for you to use in a wedding cards, to include in your wedding vows, or in your vow renewal ceremony – even to ink on your skin as his and her tattoos should this be acceptable to your beliefs.

They also word well as captions.

(If you’re looking for wedding photo captions, then check out these wedding cake captions and these wedding ring quotes too).

A couple in a piggy back ride, the man looking at the mountain view, with the text overlay Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins. - 1 Peter 4:8 - Christian marriage quotes

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins. – 1 Peter 4:8

Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another. – Romans 12:10

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. – Proverbs 31:10-11

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. – 1 Corinthians 13:13

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. – Ephesians 4:2

A couple embracing and looking at each other, with the text overlay I have found the one whom my soul loves. - Song of Solomon 3:4 - Christian marriage quotes

I have found the one whom my soul loves. – Song of Solomon 3:4

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.- Romans 12:10

Do everything in love. – 1 Corinthians 16:14

His mouth is most sweet, Yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, And this is my friend… Song of Solomon 5:16

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. – Song of Solomon 2:16

A couple on a mountain, intimately facing each other, with the text overlay Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. - 1 John 3:18 - Christian marriage quotes

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. – 1 John 3:18

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. – 1 Corinthians 13:1-3

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. – Proverbs 3:3

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. – Psalm 143:8

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.- 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

A couple blowing a dandelion, with the text overlay May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other. - 1Thesselonians 3:12 - Christian marriage quotes

May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other. – 1Thesselonians 3:12

Love yesterday, today and forever. – Jeremiah 31:3

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.- Colossians 3:12-14

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised. – Song of Solomon 8:6-7

So she became his wife, and he loved her. – Genesis 24:64

A couple holding hands, with the text overlay Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. - Ruth 1:16 - Christian marriage quotes

Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. – Ruth 1:16

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. – Genesis 2:24

Through love serve one another. – Galatians 5:13

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate. – Mark 10:9

You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. – Song of Solomon 4:9

There are, of course, many translations of the above verses.

If you do choose to use several of these Christian marriage quotes in one context (say in wedding invitations, your vows and the like), aim for consistency in selecting either the more traditional translation such as King James, or the more modern, such as New International rather than a mix of the two.

(And I think they make a beautiful addition to your wedding wishes for your son and daughter in law).

Which of these Christian marriage quotes from the Bible do you connect with the most?

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