What does the Bible say about husbands love?
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The Bible teaches that husbands are called to love their wives with faithful, self-giving, Christlike care, honoring them as equal heirs of God’s grace. Ephesians 5:25-33 presents Christ’s sacrificial love for the church as the husband’s pattern, calling him to cherish his wife as his own body rather than rule harshly. Colossians 3:19 forbids bitterness, and 1 Peter 3:7 commands understanding, honor, and spiritual seriousness in marriage. This love rests on God’s creation design in Genesis 2:24, where husband and wife become one flesh. Such covenant love protects marital faithfulness and displays the gospel in the home.
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- Ephesians 5:25 4 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,
- 1 Peter 3:7 3 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 3 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
- Ephesians 5:33 3 votes
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
- Ephesians 5:28 2 votes
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
- Genesis 2:24 2 votes
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Ephesians 5:22 2 votes
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
- 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.”
- Hebrews 13:4 2 votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- 1 Peter 4:8 2 votes
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
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