The Bible has no chapter on dating, but it has a great deal to say about how two people should treat each other: with patience, honesty and humility, without keeping score. Most of these verses were written to churches, yet they apply just as well to a couple, housemates or a family.
The verses are grouped into love and patience, choosing a partner, and handling conflict. Every one is from the public-domain World English Bible, so you can share it freely.
24 verses and passages · World English Bible (public domain) · each one opens in the maker as a video or a phone wallpaper
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The everyday habits that keep a relationship healthy.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
With all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do. Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous, not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another…
Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
Doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
Character over charm, in the words of Proverbs and Paul.
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness?
Yahweh God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
For arguments, silence and starting again.
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath, neither give place to the devil.
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
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Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
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Its most practical teaching is in letters like Ephesians 4 and Colossians 3: be humble, gentle and patient, forgive quickly, speak words that build up, and don’t let anger last past sunset (Ephesians 4:26).
Song of Solomon 8:4 says not to stir up or awaken love until it is ready. Proverbs 4:23, about guarding your heart, is often chosen for the same reason.
Proverbs 15:1 (“a gentle answer turns away wrath”) and James 1:19 (“be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger”) are the two most often quoted.
Every verse is quoted from the World English Bible, a modern English translation its editors have placed in the public domain, as published by Project Gutenberg (ebook #8294). Only the typography is changed: curly quotation marks, psalm titles and musical notes left out, and an ellipsis where a passage stops mid-sentence. American spellings (honor, neighbor) are the translation’s own. You are free to copy, print and share it. More about the choice of translation is on the Bible verses page.