Bible Verses about โwife submit to your husbandโ
The Bible contains 40 verses about wife submit to your husband across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โLet your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;โ
โHusbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;โ
โbut 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.โ
โNevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.โ
โYou 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.โ
โEven so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.โ
โWives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.โ
โFor no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;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
โFor the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.โ
โthat he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,โ
โthat he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.โ
โBut as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.โ
โBut 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:โ
โBut 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.โ
โbecause we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.โ
โIn 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;โ
โThis mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.โ
โBut I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.โ
โHusbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.โ
โFor this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:โ
โseeing your pure behavior in fear.โ
โFinally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,โ
โas Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.โ
โsubjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.โ
โnot rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.โ
โBecause 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;โ
โThis 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,โ
โFor, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.โ
โTo the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."โ
โwho 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.โ
โhaving a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.โ
โin which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,โ
โwho is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.โ
โFor 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."โ
โLet him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.โ
โFor it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.โ
โBut even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."โ
โNow who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?โ
โWives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.โ
