What Does the Bible Say About Husbands Love?
Here are 11 Bible verses about husbands love, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.
- #1Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
BSBHusbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
- #21 Peter 3:7
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
BSBHusbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
- #3Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
BSBHusbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
- #4Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
BSBNevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
- #5Ephesians 5:28
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
BSBIn the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- #6Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
BSBFor this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- #7Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
BSBWives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
- #8Ephesians 5:31
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
BSB“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
- #91 Peter 4:8
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
BSBAbove all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
- #10Proverbs 18:22
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
BSBHe who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
- #11Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
BSBMarriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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