What Does the Bible Say About Honoring Your Husband?

1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

Proverbs 31:10-12 ESV / 91 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 78 helpful votes

It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 64 helpful votes

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ...

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 56 helpful votes

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

1 Peter 3:3-5 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 41 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 22 helpful votes

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

Ephesians 4:1-12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...

Titus 2:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 14 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. ...

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 14 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. ...

Romans 3:23 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Titus 2:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 7 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord. ...

Psalm 42:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

James 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

37 Bible Verses about Honoring Your Husband

1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10-12 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 64 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 56 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3-5 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 41 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 31 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 22 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:1-12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Titus 2:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Titus 2:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Psalm 42:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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37 Bible Verses about Honoring Your Husband

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Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 86 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10-12 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 64 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 56 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3-5 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 41 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 31 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 22 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:1-12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Titus 2:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Titus 2:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Psalm 42:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes