Covenant Love
virtueThe steadfast, covenant loyalty at the heart of marriage — love that persists through commitment and sacrifice rather than feeling alone.
Not just a list of verses — a map of how ideas in Scripture connect and lead to each other.
Follow the flow
Covenant Love connects to different paths in Scripture:
Covenant Love arises from Marriage and Love, and leads to Spiritual Growth.
Reading Path
Follow this theme through Scripture — one verse per step, in theological order.
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”Ephesians 5:31 →
“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.”Song of Solomon 8:7 →
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.”Colossians 3:18 →
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:”Matthew 28:19 →
“Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:”Colossians 1:28 →
Relationships
Anchor Scriptures 20 verses
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.”
Read in context →“And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.”
Read in context →“Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.”
Read in context →“The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”
Read in context →“For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.”
Read in context →“The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.”
Read in context →“Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.”
Read in context →“And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;”
Read in context →“And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.”
Read in context →“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;”
Read in context →“And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,”
Read in context →“And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.”
Read in context →“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
Read in context →“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
Read in context →“And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,”
Read in context →“Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.”
Read in context →“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.”
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