What the Bible says about love and sex
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. (Genesis 2: 24)
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
. . . Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. (Ephesians 5: 28, 33)
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. (Proverbs 4: 5-6)
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. (Proverbs 15: 17)
Open rebuke is better than secret love. (Proverbs 27: 5)
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. (Song of Songs 2: 4)
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. (John 13: 34-35)
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15: 13)
. . . God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. (II Timothy 1: 7)
. . . let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. (I John 3: 18)
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear . . . (I John 4: 18)
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