Bible Verses About Being a Good Husband
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being a good husband, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,608 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 7:1-40. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being a Good Husband
1 Corinthians 7:1-40239 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Peter 3:7238 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.
James 1:19-20216 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Proverbs 5:18-19181 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
1 Timothy 3:2145 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Ephesians 4:26144 votes
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Ephesians 5:25-30135 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Matthew 19:5129 votes
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Romans 12:9-21112 votes
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Romans 12:14-2190 votes
Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
Ephesians 6:475 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Matthew 5:3270 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 4:3169 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Titus 1:5-969 votes
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
Colossians 3:1967 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Titus 2:3-462 votes
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Proverbs 18:2260 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:1854 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Matthew 5:2253 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Genesis 1:2750 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Ephesians 5:2546 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Corinthians 11:1-3445 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Ephesians 4:2743 votes
Neither give place to the devil.
1 Timothy 3:1240 votes
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Genesis 2:1839 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.
What does the Bible say about being a good husband?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 7:1-40 on the subject of being a good husband. Across 3,608 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:7, James 1:19-20, Proverbs 5:18-19. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.