Bible Verses About Dating

Dating can be exciting but also challenging as we navigate our relationships and feelings. The Bible offers wisdom and guidance to help us understand what healthy, respectful, and loving relationships look like. In this blog post, we’ll explore Bible verses about dating that can provide insight and direction for building strong, meaningful connections. Whether you’re currently dating or looking for advice on how to approach relationships, these scriptures can help you make choices that honor both yourself and others. Let’s dive into what the Bible says about dating and how it can shape our relationships for the better.

Bible Verses About Dating

Genesis 2:18 – Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Proverbs 18:22 – He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 31:10 – An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Ecclesiastes 4:9 – Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

Song of Solomon 2:7 – I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

Song of Solomon 3:5 – I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

Song of Solomon 8:4 – I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

Matthew 7:12 – So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 22:37-39 – And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Mark 12:30-31 – And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

John 15:12 – “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”

Romans 13:10 – Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 – Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 15:33 – Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

2 Corinthians 6:14 – Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Galatians 5:22-23 – But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Ephesians 5:25 – Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 5:33 – However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Philippians 2:3 – Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Colossians 3:14 – And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Colossians 3:19 – Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

1 Thessalonians 4:3 – For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;

1 Thessalonians 4:7 – For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.

1 Timothy 5:1 – Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,

1 Timothy 5:2 – older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Hebrews 13:4 – Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

1 Peter 3:7 – Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Peter 4:8 – Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

1 John 4:7 – Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:12 – No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

Exodus 20:14 – “You shall not commit adultery.

Leviticus 18:22 – “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Deuteronomy 22:5 – “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Proverbs 19:14 – House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Proverbs 31:30 – Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 – For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

Isaiah 62:5 – For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Matthew 19:4-6 – He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Mark 10:9 – What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Luke 6:31 – And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

1 Corinthians 7:2 – But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:9 – But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

1 Corinthians 7:28 – But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

Ephesians 5:21 – Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

1 John 4:18 – There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

These verses offer insight into how to approach dating and relationships with wisdom and care, reflecting the principles of love, respect, and integrity.

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