Bible Verses About Submitting to Your Husband
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for submitting to your husband, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,968 votes, led by Ephesians 5:22-24. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Submitting to Your Husband
Ephesians 5:22-24237 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
1 Peter 3:1-22118 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 5:22-33105 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Genesis 3:1686 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.
1 Corinthians 11:384 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.
1 Peter 3:178 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 5:21-3373 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Colossians 3:1872 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
1 Timothy 2:11-1272 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Peter 3:1-272 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 5:2271 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:1-3369 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Ephesians 5:2168 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
1 Peter 3:1-659 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 5:2553 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:2450 votes
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
1 Peter 3:750 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.
Titus 2:549 votes
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Ephesians 5:3348 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 Timothy 2:1146 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Corinthians 11:844 votes
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
1 Corinthians 13:1-1338 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.
Colossians 3:1-2536 votes
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Genesis 2:2435 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Timothy 2:1235 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
What does the Bible say about submitting to your husband?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 5:22-24 on the subject of submitting to your husband. Across 2,968 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:1-22, Ephesians 5:22-33, Genesis 3:16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.