What does the Bible say about husbands loving their wives?
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The Bible calls husbands to love their wives with faithful, tender, self-giving devotion, reflecting Christ’s sacrificial love for his church. Ephesians 5:25-33 teaches that a husband is to nourish and cherish his wife as his own body, seeking her good rather than selfish advantage. Colossians 3:19 forbids harshness, while 1 Peter 3:7 calls husbands to live with understanding and honor their wives as fellow heirs of grace. Marriage is God’s covenantal union, established in Genesis 2:24 and to be held in honor, as Hebrews 13:4 says. Such love includes forgiveness, gentleness, faithfulness, delight, and a humble desire to serve Christ by serving one’s wife.
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- 1 Peter 3:7 5 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.
- Genesis 2:24 3 votes
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Ephesians 5:33 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 5:22-33 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.
- 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.
- Ephesians 4:32 2 votes
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
- Proverbs 5:18-19 2 votes
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
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