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Bible Verses About Husbands and Wives
Find Bible verses about husbands and wives — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about husbands and wives?
The Bible addresses husbands and wives 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
1 Kings 11:3
“He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.”
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Ephesians 5:24
“But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.”
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Ephesians 5:25
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”
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Ephesians 5:28
“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”
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Genesis 8:16
“"Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.”
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John 4:18
“for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."”
Colossians 3:19
“Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.”
2 Chronicles 21:14
“behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;”
Ephesians 5:22
“Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”
Titus 2:4
“that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,”
1 Corinthians 14:34
“let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.”
Jeremiah 29:6
“Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don't be diminished.”
1 Peter 3:7
“You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may no...”
Deuteronomy 17:17
“Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.”
Ruth 1:11
“Naomi said, "Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?”
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