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Bible Verses About Husbands

12 Bible verses about husbands, quoted word for word from the King James Version (KJV) and the World English Bible (WEB). Both translations are in the public domain. Tap a chapter link to read each verse in its full context.

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1 Peter 3:7

KJVLikewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
WEBYou 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

KJVHusbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
WEBHusbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Ephesians 5:25

KJVHusbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
WEBHusbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 5:28

KJVSo ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
WEBEven 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

KJVBut if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
WEBBut 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 5:31

KJVFor this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
WEB“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.”

Ephesians 5:33

KJVNevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
WEBNevertheless 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

KJVLive joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
WEBLive 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.

Genesis 2:24

KJVTherefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
WEBTherefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Hebrews 13:4

KJVMarriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
WEBLet marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Ephesians 5:21

KJVSubmitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
WEBsubjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Proverbs 18:22

KJVWhoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
WEBWhoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

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