Bible Verses about “honor your wife”
The Bible contains 36 verses about honor your wife across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
“Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;”
“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”
“(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.”
“But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband”
“Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”
“but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.”
“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
“You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.”
“Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.”
“but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”
“Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."”
“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:”
“In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;”
“Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.”
“For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:”
“seeing your pure behavior in fear.”
“Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.”
“Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,”
“as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.”
“not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.”
“Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;”
“This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,”
“For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.”
“who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.”
“having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.”
“in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,”
“who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.”
“For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."”
“Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.”
“For it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.”
“But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."”
“Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?”