Husband

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

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

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become 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, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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

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

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

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

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

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

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

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

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

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

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

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

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, — read the full passage →

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him. — read the full passage →

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.