31 Bible Verses about A Good Husband

A husband should give his wife her due, and a wife her husband.

For a man is the Head of his wife, as the Christ is the Head of the Church--being indeed himself the Savior of his Body.

Again, you married women should submit to your husbands, so that if any of them reject the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over, by the conduct of their wives,

To those who are married my direction is-yet it is not mine, but the Master's-that a woman is not to leave her husband

It is not the wife, but the husband, who exercises power over her body; and so, too, it is not the husband, but the wife, who exercises power over his body.

With reference to the subjects about which you wrote to me: It would be well for a man to remain single.

They are to be men of irreproachable character, who are faithful husbands, whose children are Christians and have never been charged with dissolute conduct or have been unruly.

But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.

"Go and call your husband," said Jesus, "and then come back."

"If that," said the disciples, "is the position of a man with regard to his wife, it is better not to marry."

"For you have had five husbands, and the man with whom you are now living is not your husband; in saying that, you have spoken the truth."

However, for you individually, let each love his wife as if she were himself; and the wife be careful to respect her husband.

For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband while he is living; but, if her husband dies, she is set free from the law that bound her to him.

How can you tell, wife, whether you may not save your husband? and how can you tell, husband, whether you may not save your wife?

While the married man is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please his wife;

And so his interests are divided. Again, the unmarried woman, whether she is old or young, is anxious about the Master's Cause, striving to be pure both in body and in spirit, while the married woman is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please her husband.

Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for her,

And a woman who is married to a man, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with her, should not divorce her husband.

(If she has done so, let her remain as she is, or else be reconciled to her husband) and also that a man is not to divorce his wife.

Husbands, love your wives, and never treat them harshly.

But I am anxious that you should understand that the Christ is the Head of every man, that man is the Head of woman, and that God is the Head of the Christ.

Assistant-Officers should be faithful husbands, and men who rule their children and their households well.

Again, those of you who are married men should live considerately with their wives, showing due regard to their sex, as weaker than their own, and not forgetting that they share with you in the gift of Life. Then you will be able to pray without hindrance.

"I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying 'I have no husband,'" replied Jesus,

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but, if the husband should pass to his rest, the widow is free to marry any one she wishes, provided he is a believer.

For, through his wife, the husband who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ's People; and the wife who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ's People through our Brother whom she has married. Otherwise your children would be 'defiled,' but, as it is, they belong to Christ's People.

At the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be out of the seven, all of them having had her?"

Wives should submit to their husbands as submitting to the Lord.

Wives, submit to your husbands, as befits those who belong to the Lord.

"Teacher, Moses said--'Should a man die without children, the man's brother shall become the husband of the widow, and raise a family for his brother.'

That is how husbands ought to love their wives--as if they were their own bodies. A man who loves his wife is really loving himself;