Bible Verses About Husbands

And Jacob sendeth and calleth for Rachel and for Leah to the field unto his flock;

and saith to them, `I am beholding your father's face--that it is not towards me as heretofore, and the God of my father hath been with me,

and ye--ye have known that with all my power I have served your father,

and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made them , from the beginning a male and a female made them,

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'

He saith to them--`Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

and they shall be--the two--for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying,

that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;