Husbands Loving Their Wives

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, and be not bitter against them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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;

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 →

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

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

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

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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.

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

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.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — 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:

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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 →

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

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

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

But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

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

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

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

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

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.

For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

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

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

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 →

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 →

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, — read the full passage →

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

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

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

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

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

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 →

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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.

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

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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 →

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. — read the full passage →

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 →

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 →

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

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

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

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

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; — read the full passage →

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

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 →