Bible Verses About Husbands and Wives
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for husbands and wives, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 9,619 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 Husbands and Wives
1 Peter 3:7604 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 5:25600 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Corinthians 7:1-40485 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Colossians 3:19463 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Ephesians 5:22-33405 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:22358 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:28327 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Proverbs 31:10-31307 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Ephesians 5:31291 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.
Hebrews 13:4286 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Peter 3:1-6257 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;
Proverbs 18:22223 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
1 Timothy 3:1-7211 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Ephesians 5:25-29201 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Colossians 3:14189 votes
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Ephesians 5:33166 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.
Ephesians 5:23162 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.
Genesis 2:24150 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:21144 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-11135 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
1 Peter 3:1132 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 Timothy 5:8129 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.
Proverbs 5:18-19127 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Colossians 3:18120 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8118 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
What does the Bible say about husbands and wives?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 3:7 on the subject of husbands and wives. Across 9,619 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:25, 1 Corinthians 7:1-40, Colossians 3:19. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.