What does the Bible say about honoring your husband?

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The Bible calls a wife to honor her husband through respectful love, willing submission to his God-given leadership, faithful partnership, and godly character, while her ultimate allegiance remains to Christ. Ephesians 5:22-24 places marriage within the pattern of Christ's loving headship of the church, and Ephesians 5:33 joins a wife's respect with a husband's self-sacrificial love. First Peter 3:1-6 commends a gentle, quiet spirit and conduct that may bear witness to unbelieving husbands. Proverbs 31:10-12 portrays a capable wife who seeks her husband's good and earns his trust. This honor is never a call to enable sin or endure abuse, but to live wisely, truthfully, and reverently before God.

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