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What Does the Bible Say About Husbands Role?

Here are 15 Bible verses about husbands role, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #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

  2. #2Colossians 3:19

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

    BSBHusbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

  3. #31 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.

  4. #41 Timothy 5:8

    But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

    BSBIf anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

  5. #5Ephesians 5:23

    For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

    BSBFor the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

  6. #6Ephesians 6:4

    And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

    BSBFathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  7. #7Ephesians 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.

  8. #8Ephesians 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.

  9. #91 Corinthians 11:3

    But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

    BSBBut I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

  10. #10Ephesians 5:22

    Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

    BSBWives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

  11. #11Genesis 3:16

    Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

    BSBTo the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

  12. #121 Peter 3:1

    Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

    BSBWives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

  13. #13Genesis 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.

  14. #14Titus 2:4

    That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

    BSBIn this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,

  15. #15Matthew 5:32

    But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

    BSBBut I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

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