What Does the Bible Say About Household Chores?

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 6 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.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timothy 3:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 3 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,

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 3 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.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 3 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.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 3 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. ...

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 3 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 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, ...

Genesis 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

22 Bible Verses about Household Chores

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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22 Bible Verses about Household Chores

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Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote