31 Bible Verses about A Good Husband

let the husband discharge his obligations to his wife: and likewise the wife to the husband.

for the husband presides over his wife, as Christ presides over the church: and he it is that preserves the whole body.

Let the married women be subservient to their husbands, that if they happen to disbelieve the gospel, they may be gain'd by the instructive conduct of their wives,

as to the married, I enjoin this rule, not as from my self, but from the Lord, that a woman should not leave her husband:

the wife has not the right of her own person, but the husband: and so likewise the husband has not the right of his own person, but the wife.

Now as to the question you writ to me about; "whether it is best for a man not to marry?"

to chuse such as are without reproach, married to but one wife, whose children are obedient, not accused of debauchery, nor unruly.

I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband.

go, call your husband, said Jesus, and come again.

thereupon his disciples said, if the case between man and wife be such, it is best not to marry.

for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have, is not your husband: in that you said true.

wherefore let every one of you without exception, love his wife even as himself; and let the wife respect her husband.

now a married woman is bound by the law to her living husband: but if her husband dieth, she is released from the marriage-contract.

O wife, but you may save your husband? or how do you know, O man, but you may save your wife?

he that is married is worldly concern'd, how he may please his wife.

there is the same difference between a married woman and a virgin: the last is religiously concern'd to be holy, both in body and mind: but she that is married is taken up with worldly cares to please her husband.

You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her:

and if a woman has a pagan husband, who likes to live with her, let her not leave him.

but if she has separated herself, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

husbands, love your wives, and do not exasperate them.

but I would have you take notice, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the wife, is the man; and the head of Christ, is God.

a deacon must have but one wife, and govern his children, and the rest of the family in a proper manner.

You husbands, do you on your part behave with prudence towards your wives: who being of a more delicate make, ought to be treated with the greater tenderness: and consider they are equally intitled to the evangelical gifts, that your prayers may not be frustrated.

the woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus replied, you were in the right to say you have no husband:

The wife is bound as long as her husband lives: but if her husbnd be dead, she is at liberty to be married, if she pleases; provided it be to a christian.

for the unbelieving husband is christianiz'd by the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is christianiz'd by the believing husband: else were your children heathens: whereas they are christians.

now if there be another life after this, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all married her.

let married women be submissive to their husbands, out of regard to the Lord.

Dames, be submissive to your husbands, as becomes christians.

master, said they, by the law of Moses, in case a man die without children, his brother is oblig'd to marry his wife, in order to perpetuate his brother's name.

in like manner ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies: "he that loves his wife, loveth himself."