What does the Bible say about husbands?
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The Bible calls husbands to self-sacrificing love, faithful provision, tender honor, and Christlike leadership in marriage. Ephesians 5:25-33 teaches that a husband’s pattern is Christ, who loved the church and gave himself for her, nourishing and cherishing his wife as his own body. Colossians 3:19 forbids harshness, while 1 Peter 3:7 commands husbands to live with understanding and honor their wives as fellow heirs of grace. Scripture also charges households with responsible care, as seen in 1 Timothy 5:8. Marriage is a covenantal one-flesh union, and husbands are to rejoice in and remain devoted to their wives (Ephesians 5:31; Ecclesiastes 9:9).
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- 1 Peter 3:7 4 votes
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
- Colossians 3:19 4 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
- Ephesians 5:25 4 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,
- Ephesians 5:28 3 votes
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
- 1 Timothy 5:8 3 votes
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- Ephesians 5:22-33 3 votes
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect. Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly, because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.” This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the assembly. Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
- Ephesians 5:31 2 votes
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:3 2 votes
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
- Ephesians 5:33 2 votes
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
- Ecclesiastes 9:9 2 votes
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
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