Bible Verses about “a husband”

“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.”

“Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;”

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

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

“But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife.”

“¶ And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:”

“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.”

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

“¶ 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;”

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

“Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.”

“For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:”

“While they behold your chaste conversation [coupled] with fear.”

“¶ [Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD.”

“¶ Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:”

“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.”

“Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.”

“¶ For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”

“¶ The like figure whereunto [even] baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:”

“For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:”

“Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”

“¶ Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.”

“By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;”

“Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.”

“For the eyes of the Lord [are] over the righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord [is] against them that do evil.”

“Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.”

“For [it is] better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.”

“But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy [are ye]: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;”

“And who [is] he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?”

“[Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.”

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

“¶ House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.”

“And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.”

“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.”

“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.”