Bible Verses About Treatment of Spouse
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for treatment of spouse, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 183 votes, led by Ephesians 5:25. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Treatment of Spouse
Ephesians 5:2517 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:3315 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.
Hebrews 13:414 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Peter 3:714 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.
Proverbs 18:2213 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Ephesians 4:3213 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
1 Peter 3:113 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;
Genesis 2:2411 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matthew 19:4-611 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 Corinthians 7:211 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Ephesians 5:2211 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
John 3:16-1710 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Ephesians 5:2310 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 5:2810 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Colossians 3:1910 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
What does the Bible say about treatment of spouse?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 5:25 on the subject of treatment of spouse. Across 183 votes, 15 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:33, Hebrews 13:4, 1 Peter 3:7. This page lists all 15 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.