30 Bible Verses about Husband And Wife

Most Relevant Verses

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife has not the authority over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not the authority over his own body, but the wife.

1 Corinthians 14:35

But if they wish to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is disgraceful for a woman to talk in church.

Romans 7:2

For a woman who is under her husband has been given to her husband by the law so long as he lives; but if the husband may die, she is free from the law of the husband.

Ephesians 5:28

So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself:

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Ephesians 5:25-32

Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her; in order that he might sanctify her, having purified her by the washing of water through the word, in order that he might present to himself the glorious church, having not spot or wrinkle or any of such things; but that she might be holy and blameless. read more.
So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself: for no one ever yet hated his own flesh; but he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church; because we are members of his body: on account of this a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife: and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.

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