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What does the Bible say about husbands and wives?

15 verses about husbands and wives, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about husbands and wives

Ephesians 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 6 votes
1 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. 6 votes
1 Corinthians 7:1 — Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 5 votes
Colossians 3:19 — Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. 5 votes
Ephesians 5:22 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 4 votes
Proverbs 31:10 — Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. 3 votes
Ephesians 5:28 — So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 3 votes
Ephesians 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. 3 votes
Hebrews 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 3 votes
Proverbs 18:22 — Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. 2 votes
Ephesians 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. 2 votes
Ephesians 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. 2 votes
Colossians 3:14 — And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. 2 votes
1 Timothy 3:1 — This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2 votes
1 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; 2 votes

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Ephesians (6), Proverbs (2), Colossians (2), 1 Peter (2), 1 Corinthians (1), 1 Timothy (1), Hebrews (1)

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