Bible Verses About Husbands

Therefore Iaakob sent and called Rahel and Leah to the fielde vnto his flocke.

Then sayde hee vnto them, I see your fathers countenance, that it is not towardes me as it was wont, and the God of my father hath bene with me.

And yee knowe that I haue serued your father with all my might.

But your father hath deceiued me, and changed my wages tenne times: but God suffred him not to hurt me.

Then came vnto him the Pharises tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawfull for a man to put away his wife vpon euery occasion?

And he answered and sayd vnto them, Haue ye not read, that hee which made them at the beginning, made them male and female,

And sayd, For this cause, shall a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh.

Wherefore they are no more twaine, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath coupled together.

They said to him, Why did then Moses commaund to giue a bill of diuorcement, and to put her away?

He sayd vnto them, Moses, because of the hardnesse of your heart, suffered you to put away your wiues: but from the beginning it was not so.

I say therefore vnto you, that whosoeuer shall put away his wife, except it be for whoredome, and marry another, committeth adulterie: and whosoeuer marieth her which is diuorced, doeth commit adulterie.

But at the beginning of the creation God made them male and female:

For this cause shall man leaue his father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife.

And they twaine shalbe one flesh: so that they are no more twaine, but one flesh.

Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

Let the husband giue vnto the wife due beneuolence, and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.

The wife hath not the power of her owne bodie, but ye husband: and likewise also the husband hath not ye power of his own body, but the wife.

Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ loued the Church, and gaue himselfe for it,

That hee might sanctifie it, and clense it by the washing of water through the worde,

That hee might make it vnto him selfe a glorious Church, not hauing spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it shoulde bee holy and without blame.

So ought men to loue their wiues, as their owne bodies: he that loueth his wife, loueth him selfe.

For no man euer yet hated his owne flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, euen as the Lord doeth the Church.

For we are members of his bodie, of his flesh, and of his bones.

For this cause shall a man leaue father and mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they twaine shalbe one flesh.

This is a great secrete, but I speake concerning Christ, and concerning the Church.