A husband

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• 1 Peter 3:1–22

  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; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; …

• 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.

• 1 Corinthians 7:10–11

  And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

• Colossians 3:19

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

• Ephesians 5:25–33

  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. …

• Ephesians 5:25

  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

• Genesis 2:24

  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

• 1 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.

• 1 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.

• Proverbs 5:18–19

  Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

• Ecclesiastes 9:9

  Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

• Malachi 2:14–15

  Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

• Ephesians 5:28

  So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

• 1 Timothy 3:2

  A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

• 1 Corinthians 7:3

  Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

• Proverbs 18:22

  Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

• Proverbs 19:14

  House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

• Proverbs 12:4

  A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

• Proverbs 20:6–7

  Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

• 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.

• 1 Corinthians 7:1–7

  Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. …

• 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.

• 1 Corinthians 7:3–5

  Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

• Ephesians 5:22–24

  Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 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. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

• Genesis 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.

• 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.

• Ephesians 5:28–29

  So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

• Matthew 19:5

  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?

• Ephesians 5:25–28

  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. …

• Proverbs 5:18

  Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

• 1 Timothy 3:12

  Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

• Hebrews 13:4

  Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

• Philippians 4:13

  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

• Matthew 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.

• Ephesians 5:22–33

  Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 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. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. …

• Malachi 2:14–16

  Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

• Matthew 5:28

  But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

• 1 Peter 4:8

  And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

• Genesis 2:18

  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

• Ephesians 5:22

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