Character & Virtues

Bible Verses About being a good husband

17 key scriptures

What does the Bible say about being a good husband? Browse 17 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: 1 Peter 3:7
King James (KJV)Likewise, 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.

17 Key Scriptures

Likewise, 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.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; of good: or, modest
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: wanting: or, left undone
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; holiness: or, holy women false: or, one who foments strife
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

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