Bible Verses about “wife submit to your husband”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“¶ 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.”

“¶ Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”

“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:”

“¶ 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.”

“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?”

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