Scripture gives husbands specific instruction, centered on sacrificial love rather than authority alone. This page gathers verified verses about husbands.
Every verse below is drawn from a verified King James Version text.
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Proverbs 31:11
Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
Proverbs 31:23
Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Proverbs 31:28
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Titus 2:4
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Titus 2:5
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Mark 10:12
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:22
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.
Ephesians 5:23
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Ephesians 5:24
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:25
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 5:33
And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
Mark 12:1
And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
Mark 12:2
But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
Mark 12:7
What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
Mark 12:9
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;
1 Peter 3:1
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
1 Peter 3:5
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 Peter 3:7
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
1 Corinthians 3:9
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
2 Timothy 2:6
All verses are quoted from the King James Version (KJV), a public-domain translation.
Ephesians 5:25’s instruction for husbands sets a sacrificial standard, tying their role directly to Christ’s example.
This connects to a pattern found throughout Bible Verses About Husbands.
If this speaks to your current situation, you may also want to read Bible Verses For Loving Your Neighbor or Bible Verses For Loss, both of which touch on related ground.
Every verse on this page is drawn from the King James Version, a public-domain translation available in full at Blue Letter Bible for anyone who wants to study the wider context.
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Every verse in Bible Verses About Husbands is drawn from the King James Version specifically, a translation completed in 1611 that remains one of the most widely quoted English versions of Scripture. Its language is more formal than modern translations, which some readers find adds a certain weight to familiar passages.
The twenty verses in Bible Verses About Husbands were selected specifically because they speak directly to this subject, rather than only mentioning it in passing. Some are well known; others are easy to overlook on a first read through Scripture. Both kinds are included here because familiarity is not the same as relevance — a lesser-known verse can sometimes say exactly what a well-known one does not.
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Husbands are called in Scripture to a sacrificial standard of love, not simply a position of authority.