What does the Bible say about husbands role?
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The Bible calls husbands to exercise Christlike, sacrificial leadership in their homes, loving, protecting, providing for, and honoring their wives rather than ruling harshly or selfishly. Ephesians 5:25-33 presents Christ’s self-giving love for the church as the pattern: a husband is to cherish his wife as his own body. As head of the wife, Ephesians 5:23 points to ordered responsibility under Christ, never superiority or oppression. Colossians 3:19 forbids harshness, and 1 Peter 3:7 commands considerate, honoring partnership as fellow heirs of grace. Husbands are also responsible to provide for their households and to nurture their children in the Lord (1 Timothy 5:8; Ephesians 6:4).
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- Ephesians 5:25 3 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,
- Colossians 3:19 3 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
- 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.
- 1 Timothy 5:8 2 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 5:23 2 votes
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.
- Ephesians 6:4 2 votes
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 5:22 2 votes
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
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