30 Bible Verses about Husband And Wife

A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights.

because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.

At the Resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? for they all married her."

Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.

But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, but the Lord's--that a wife is not to leave her husband;

and if they wish to ask questions, they should ask their own husbands at home. For it is disgraceful for a married woman to speak at a Church assembly.

I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head.

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

For what assurance have you, O woman, as to whether you will save your husband? Or what assurance have you, O man, as to whether you will save your wife?

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband--if he consents to live with her, let her not separate from him.

Married women, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands, so that even if some of them disbelieve the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over by the daily life of their wives, after watching your daily life--

A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.

but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world--how he shall please his wife.

or if she has already left him, let her either remain as she is or be reconciled to him; and that a husband is not to send away his wife.

Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly.

Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.

For, in such cases, the unbelieving husband has become--and is--holy through union with a Christian woman, and the unbelieving wife is holy through union with a Christian brother. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but in reality they have a place among God's people.

For in the Resurrection, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven.

and the two shall be one'; so that they are two no longer, but 'one.'

Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;

There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business--that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world--how she shall please her husband.

A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.

"For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."

Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;

That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church.

Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.

"If this is the case with a man in relation to his wife," said the disciples to Him, "it is better not to marry."

wherever there is a man of blameless life, true to his one wife, having children who are themselves believers and are free from every reproach of profligacy or of stubborn self-will.

Now we had among us seven brothers. The eldest of them married, but died childless, leaving his wife to his brother.