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What Does the Bible Say About Treatment of Spouse?

Here are 15 Bible verses about Treatment of Spouse, 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. #2Ephesians 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.

  3. #3Hebrews 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.

  4. #41 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.

  5. #5Proverbs 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.

  6. #61 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

  7. #7Ephesians 4:32

    And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

    BSBBe kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

  8. #8Ephesians 5:22

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

    BSBWives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

  9. #91 Corinthians 7:2

    Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

    BSBBut because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

  10. #10Genesis 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.

  11. #11Colossians 3:19

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

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

  12. #12Matthew 19:4-6

    And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

    BSBJesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

  13. #13Ephesians 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.

  14. #14Ephesians 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.

  15. #15John 3:16-17

    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

    BSBFor God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

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