45 Bible Verses about Husband And Wife

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband [does]. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but his wife [does].

because [the] husband is [the] head of the wife, as also Christ [is the] head of the church (he himself [being the] Savior of the body).

"When a man takes a new wife he shall not go out with the army, and {he shall not be obligated with anything}; he shall be free from obligation, {to stay at home} for one year, and he shall bring joy [to] his wife that he took.

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her [as wife]."

The husband must fulfill his obligation to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

To the married I command--not I, but the Lord--a wife must not separate from [her] husband.

But if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man [is the] head of the woman, and [the] head of Christ [is] God.

But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

And if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she must not divorce her husband.

In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the conduct of their wives,

A wife is bound for as long a time [as] her husband lives. But if her husband {dies}, she is free to marry whomever she wishes, only in the Lord.

But the one who is married cares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

But if indeed she does separate, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce [his] wife.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

Only you also, each one [of you], must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife {must respect} her husband.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother, since otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.

and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two but one flesh.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for her;

and he is divided. And the unmarried woman or the virgin cares for the things of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

For the married woman is bound by law to [her] husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband.

"For this [reason] a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

--wives to their own husbands as to the Lord,

(This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.)

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself.

"Any vow and any sworn oath of a pledge to inflict on herself, her husband can confirm it or her husband can nullify it.

"If a man takes a woman and {he has sex with her}, but [he] then {dislikes her},

her first husband who sent her [away] is not allowed {to take her again} to become a wife to him after she has {been defiled}, for that [is] a detestable thing {before} Yahweh, and [so] you shall not mislead into sin the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance.

The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of a man with his wife, it would be better not to marry!"

If anyone is blameless, [the] husband of one wife, having faithful children, not {accused of dissipation} or rebellious.

For jealousy [is the] fury of a husband, and he will not show restraint on the day of revenge.

and she goes from his house, and she goes [out] and becomes [a wife] {for another man},

A woman of strength [is] the crown of her master, but like rot in his bones is she who brings shame.

If he takes for himself another, he will not reduce her food, her clothing, or her right of cohabitation.

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh.

Take wives and father sons and daughters, and take for your sons wives, and give your daughters to men that they may bear sons and daughters, and multiply there, and you must not be few.

Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first died [after] getting married, and [because he] did not have descendants, he left his wife to his brother.

May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

{Make the bride price and gift as high as you like}; I will give what you say to me. But give me the girl as a wife."

she who forsakes the partner of her youth and has forgotten the covenant of her God,

So now, return the wife of the man, for he [is] a prophet, so that he will pray for you and you will live. And {if you do not return her}, know that you will certainly die, and all that [are] yours."

But if she made a vow [in] her husband's house, or bound herself on a pledge with a sworn oath,