Bible Verses About Head of Household
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for head of household, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 17,008 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 11:3. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Head of Household
1 Corinthians 11:3844 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.
1 Peter 3:7605 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.
Genesis 3:16513 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.
Ephesians 5:25464 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:23452 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 Timothy 5:8433 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 6:4354 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Ephesians 5:22345 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Colossians 3:21320 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Ephesians 6:1234 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Ephesians 5:22-24225 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Proverbs 31:12211 votes
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Genesis 2:18205 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.
1 Timothy 2:11-15204 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Colossians 3:18-19197 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Colossians 3:19195 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Ephesians 5:33187 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.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40185 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Ephesians 5:28176 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
1 Timothy 2:12172 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Colossians 3:18167 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Proverbs 31:1-31165 votes
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
John 3:16164 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joshua 24:15157 votes
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
1 Timothy 3:4157 votes
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
What does the Bible say about head of household?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 11:3 on the subject of head of household. Across 17,008 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:7, Genesis 3:16, Ephesians 5:25. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.