What Does the Bible Say About Husbands?

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

“And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,”

“And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.”

“And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.”

“And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.”

“Live 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. Live: Heb. See, or, Enjoy life”

“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

“The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?”

“And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,”

“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?”

“Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

“They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?”

“He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.”

“And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.”

“But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.”

“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;”

“And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.”

“Nevertheless , to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”

“Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.”

“The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.”

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”

“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”

“That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”

“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”

“For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:”

“For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.”

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

“This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”

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

“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”

“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”