Bible Verses About A Husband
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for a husband, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,601 votes, led by 1 Peter 3:1-22. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about A Husband
1 Peter 3:1-22321 votes
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;
1 Peter 3:7281 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 7:10-11239 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Colossians 3:19231 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Ephesians 5:25-33210 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Genesis 2:24186 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:25147 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Timothy 5:8139 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 11:3127 votes
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.
Proverbs 5:18-19118 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Ecclesiastes 9:9106 votes
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Malachi 2:14-15101 votes
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Ephesians 5:2897 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
1 Timothy 3:294 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Corinthians 7:392 votes
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Proverbs 18:2291 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Proverbs 19:1482 votes
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 12:477 votes
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 20:6-775 votes
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
1 Corinthians 7:1-772 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Ephesians 5:3172 votes
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.
Ephesians 5:2371 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 7:3-561 votes
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Ephesians 5:22-2461 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Genesis 3:1660 votes
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.
What does the Bible say about a husband?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 3:1-22 on the subject of a husband. Across 4,601 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:7, 1 Corinthians 7:10-11, Colossians 3:19. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.