Husband

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

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 the full passage →

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 the full passage →

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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.

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, — read the full passage →

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. — read the full passage →

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.