12 Bible Verses about Husbands Duty To Wives

And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.

Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them.

And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word. ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

And certain Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, Is it right for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said, For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?read more.
So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man. They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her? He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first. And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.

Then her husband Elkanah said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are you taking no food? why is your heart troubled? am I not more to you than ten sons?

And Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to him in the field among his flock. And he said to them, It is clear to me that your father's feeling is no longer what it was to me; but the God of my father has been with me And you have seen how I have done all in my power for your father,read more.
But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.

(Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife. But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her.