Husbands Love

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

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, and don’t be bitter against them.

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

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.”

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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

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

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.

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

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

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;

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

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved 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 now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

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.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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

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 →

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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.

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

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

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 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.

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 →

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

Let all that you do be done in love.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

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

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — 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 →

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

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

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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?’

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

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

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

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

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

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

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 →

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

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

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

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — 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.

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

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 →

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 →

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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.”