Bible Verses about “honor your wife”

“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.”

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

“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:”

“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.”

“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.”

“Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

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

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

“¶ And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”

“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:”

“¶ 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;”

“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?”