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Bible Verses About How a Husband Should Treat His Wife
Find Bible verses about how a husband should treat his wife — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about how a husband should treat his wife?
The Bible addresses how a husband should treat his wife with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Ephesians 5:33
“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
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Ezekiel 16:32
“A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!”
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Ephesians 5:23
“For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.”
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Isaiah 54:6
“For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off," says your God.”
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Job 32:7
“I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'”
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1 Corinthians 7:39
“A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.”
Titus 1:6
“if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.”
Genesis 2:24
“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”
Isaiah 54:5
“For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.”
Genesis 2:18
“Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."”
Philippians 2:11
“and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Philippians 2:10
“that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,”
Numbers 23:19
“God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?”
1 John 3:11
“For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;”
Ecclesiastes 5:5
“It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.”
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Proverbs 12:4 — “A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones....”
Matthew 18:14 — “Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should peri...”
Mark 10:7 — “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,...”
1 Timothy 3:2 — “The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modes...”
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