Bible Cross References
love
Genesis 2:23
And Adam said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of her husband.
Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac went into the house of his mother, and took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted over Sarah his mother.
Proverbs 5:18
Let your fountain of water be [truly] your own, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 5:19
Let [your] loving deer and your graceful colt company with you, and let her be considered your own, and be with you at all times, for ravished with her love you shall be greatly increased.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
And see life with the wife whom you love, all the days of the life of your vanity, which are given to you under the sun; for that is your portion in your life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
Malachi 2:14-16
14
Yet you said, For what reason? Because the Lord has borne witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have forsaken, and yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.
15
And did he not do well? And [there was] the residue of his spirit. But you said, What does God seek but a seed? But take heed to your own spirit, and forsake not the wife of your youth.
16
But if you should hate [your wife] and put her away, says the Lord God of Israel, then ungodliness shall cover your thoughts, says the Lord Almighty: therefore take heed to your own spirit, and forsake them not,
Luke 14:26
If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your own wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
Ephesians 5:28
So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he that loves his own wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:29
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also the Lord does the church.
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless you also individually, let each one love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respect her husband.
1 Peter 3:7
Husbands, likewise, live together according to knowledge as with a weaker vessel, with the wife, showing her honor as also a fellow heir of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.
bitter
Colossians 3:21
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Romans 3:14
"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and blasphemy be removed from you, with all malice.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.