Bible Cross References
love
Genesis 2:23
And the man said: This now at last is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man, leaving his father and mother, and having cleaved to his wife, they are one flesh.
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Proverbs 5:18
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth,
Proverbs 5:19
as a loving deer and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and always be intoxicated in her love.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Look on life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life, which He has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. For that is your share in this life, and in your labor which you labor under the sun.
Malachi 2:14-16
14
Yet you say, For what reason? Because Jehovah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; and she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
15
And has He not made them one? Yet the remnant of the Spirit is in him. And why one? He was seeking a seed of God. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and do not deal treacherously with the wife of your youth.
16
For Jehovah the God of Israel, says that He hates divorce, and to cover violence with one's garment, says Jehovah of Hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit and do not deal treacherously.
Luke 14:26
If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your 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 who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:29
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.
1 Peter 3:7
Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be cut off.
bitter
Colossians 3:21
Fathers, do not provoke your children, that they may not become discouraged.
Romans 3:14
whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all wickedness.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter envy and contention in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.