Romance

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• Proverbs 5:18–19

  Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

• Genesis 2:18

  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

• Song of Solomon 7:6

  How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

• 1 Corinthians 13:1–13

  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. …

• 1 Peter 3:7

  Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

• Genesis 2:24

  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

• Proverbs 31:10

  Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

• Song of Solomon 6:3

  I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

• 1 Peter 4:8

  And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

• 1 Corinthians 13:4–8

  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; …

• Ephesians 5:25

  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

• Song of Solomon 2:2

  As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

• Genesis 29:20

  And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

• 1 Corinthians 16:14

  Let all your things be done with charity.

• Exodus 20:14

  Thou shalt not commit adultery.

• Romans 12:21

  Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

• Proverbs 12:4

  A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

• Colossians 3:14

  And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

• John 3:27

  John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

• Matthew 19:3–9

  The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? …

• Romans 12:10

  Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

• 1 Corinthians 13:4–6

  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

• Ephesians 4:2

  With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

• Proverbs 10:12

  Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

• Song of Solomon 4:10

  How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

• Matthew 19:6

  Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

• Song of Solomon 2:16

  My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

• 1 John 4:19

  We love him, because he first loved us.

• John 15:13

  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

• Proverbs 17:17

  A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

• Proverbs 19:14

  House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

• Song of Solomon 8:6–7

  Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. 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.

• Proverbs 30:18–19

  There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

• Psalms 143:8

  Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

• Ephesians 5:33

  Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

• Colossians 3:18–19

  Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.