Bible Verses About Husband and Wife
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for husband and wife, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,684 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 Husband and Wife
1 Peter 3:7138 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.
Ephesians 5:33120 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 7:3-5117 votes
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Ephesians 5:25111 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:31100 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 5:22-2496 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Hebrews 13:493 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Ephesians 5:2276 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Genesis 2:18-2461 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.
Genesis 2:2461 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:2859 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
1 Corinthians 7:256 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
John 14:1547 votes
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Ephesians 5:2347 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 10:1345 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.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-540 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Timothy 2:1240 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
1 Corinthians 6:9-1139 votes
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Colossians 3:1939 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1 John 2:437 votes
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
John 14:1-3135 votes
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
Acts 5:2935 votes
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Matthew 5:2834 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 Corinthians 6:1334 votes
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Proverbs 18:2232 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
What does the Bible say about husband and wife?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 3:7 on the subject of husband and wife. Across 2,684 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:33, 1 Corinthians 7:3-5, Ephesians 5:25. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.