Bible Verses about โgod being our husbandโ
The Bible contains 38 verses about god being our husband across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor 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.โ
โFor God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.โ
โ"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."โ
โThis mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.โ
โHe heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.โ
โBut I have this against you, that you left your first love.โ
โRemember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.โ
โI put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.โ
โI saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.โ
โFor your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.โ
โThe Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.โ
โI brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.โ
โFor Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off," says your God.โ
โ"For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.โ
โI will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.โ
โI decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.โ
โFor I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.โ
โnot according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.โ
โThus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour, and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.โ
โThey shall be mine," says Yahweh of Armies, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.โ
โI clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I dressed you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk.โ
โNow when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.โ
โThen washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.โ
โYour renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you, says the Lord Yahweh.โ
โIt will be in that day," says Yahweh, "that you will call me 'my husband,' and no longer call me 'my master.'โ
โNeither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'โ
โA wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!โ
โThus says Yahweh, "Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.โ
โWhy, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.โ
โThus says Yahweh, "What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?โ
โ"Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.โ
โIsrael [was] holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come on them,"' says Yahweh."โ
โThe priests didn't say, 'Where is Yahweh?' and those who handle the law didn't know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.โ
โThe word of Yahweh came to me, saying,โ
โHear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!โ
โ"Therefore I will yet contend with you," says Yahweh, "and I will contend with your children's children.โ
โFor pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.โ
โHas a nation changed [its] gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.โ
