Bible Verses About Respect the Wife
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for respect the wife, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,832 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 Respect the Wife
1 Peter 3:7320 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 3:19305 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7185 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Ephesians 5:33170 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 5:25156 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Hebrews 13:4135 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Proverbs 31:10-31110 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Colossians 3:8101 votes
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Malachi 2:14-1680 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.
Genesis 2:2474 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Proverbs 18:2270 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Proverbs 19:1463 votes
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:1158 votes
Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
Ephesians 4:3257 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Titus 2:3-547 votes
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Ephesians 4:2244 votes
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
1 Peter 3:443 votes
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Proverbs 31:10-1240 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Romans 12:1034 votes
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
1 Corinthians 11:333 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 5:2133 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Ephesians 5:2233 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Proverbs 24:332 votes
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
1 Corinthians 11:1232 votes
For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
Genesis 2:1828 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.
What does the Bible say about respect the wife?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 3:7 on the subject of respect the wife. Across 2,832 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:19, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Ephesians 5:33. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.