Bible Verses About Bad Husbands
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for bad husbands, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,896 votes, led by 1 Peter 3:7. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Bad Husbands
1 Peter 3:7169 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.
Colossians 3:19153 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Hebrews 13:4140 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Ephesians 5:25132 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Timothy 5:8109 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.
Ephesians 5:33105 votes
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Matthew 5:28100 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
1 Peter 4:899 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Proverbs 4:6-798 votes
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
2 Peter 2:998 votes
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Ephesians 5:2185 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Proverbs 18:2284 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Genesis 2:2483 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Peter 3:181 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;
Ephesians 4:3280 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
1 Peter 3:1-680 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 Corinthians 10:1379 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Ephesians 5:2879 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Genesis 2:1878 votes
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Ephesians 6:478 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Matthew 5:3276 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Ephesians 5:3176 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.
1 Corinthians 7:275 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Ecclesiastes 9:974 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.
Ephesians 5:22-3374 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
What does the Bible say about bad husbands?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 3:7 on the subject of bad husbands. Across 6,896 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:19, Hebrews 13:4, Ephesians 5:25. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.