Bible Verses About Husbands
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for husbands, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,727 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
1 Peter 3:7195 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 3:19175 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Ephesians 5:25166 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:28127 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
1 Timothy 5:8124 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 5:22-33108 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:31102 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 11:385 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.
Ephesians 5:3382 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.
Ecclesiastes 9:981 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.
Genesis 2:2480 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Hebrews 13:475 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Matthew 5:2873 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.
Ephesians 5:2163 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
1 Peter 3:161 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 5:2358 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.
Ephesians 5:2253 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Genesis 3:1651 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.
Proverbs 18:2251 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Colossians 3:1850 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Malachi 2:14-1648 votes
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Matthew 5:3248 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.
1 Timothy 2:11-1546 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Corinthians 7:3344 votes
But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:243 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
What does the Bible say about husbands?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 3:7 on the subject of husbands. Across 3,727 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:19, Ephesians 5:25, Ephesians 5:28. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.