Bible Verses About Man and Wife
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for man and wife, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,847 votes, led by Genesis 2:24. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Man and Wife
Genesis 2:24175 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:22-33159 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Proverbs 18:22113 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:3107 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.
Genesis 2:18106 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.
Hebrews 13:4103 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Matthew 19:697 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Proverbs 31:10-1288 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Ephesians 5:2585 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:3383 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 Peter 3:772 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.
1 Corinthians 7:10-1165 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Galatians 3:2849 votes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:1848 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Genesis 2:2347 votes
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Proverbs 5:18-1945 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Ephesians 5:2445 votes
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Genesis 3:1640 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 5:1-3340 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Genesis 1:2739 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Matthew 19:4-639 votes
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
1 Peter 3:1-738 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;
Matthew 5:3237 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 Corinthians 6:9-1035 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,
Genesis 2:24-2534 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
What does the Bible say about man and wife?
Readers most often cite Genesis 2:24 on the subject of man and wife. Across 2,847 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:22-33, Proverbs 18:22, 1 Corinthians 11:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.