Here are some Bible verses readers have sent us about about love and commitment between two people. You can add your own favorite verse by clicking here.

Ruth 1:16-17  But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." [NIV]  from Paul, Berkeley

Mark 14:8-9  She has done what she could… Truly I tell you, wherever the good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her. [NRSV]  from Donna, Walnut Creek

1 Corinthians 12:31b, 13:4-8a  And I will show you a still more excellent way… Love is patient love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. [NRSV]  Statement from the United Methodist Council of Bishops Executive Committee, March 25, 2004

Psalm 132:1  Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. [Douay-Rheims]  from Diana, Berkeley

Solomon's Canticle of Canticles 4:1a  How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes are doves' eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of goats, which come up from mount Galaad. [Douay-Rheims]  from Diana, Berkeley