Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Synonyms for Husband: hubby, man, partner, bridegroom, mate, spouse, beau, consort, groom, boyfriend, helpmate, mister, old man, bidie-in, and helpmeet

Proverbs 12:4 (ESV)
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 31:11 (ESV)
The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.

Proverbs 31:23 (ESV)
Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.

Proverbs 31:28 (ESV)
Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

Mark 10:9-12 (ESV)
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” 10. And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11. And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12. and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Luke 16:18 (ESV)
“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:2 (ESV)
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:3-4 (ESV)
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 (ESV)
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband 11. (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:13-14 (ESV)
If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. 14. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

1 Corinthians 11:3 (ESV)
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.

Ephesians 5:23 (ESV)
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.

Ephesians 5:25 (ESV)
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 5:28 (ESV)
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:33 (ESV)
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Colossians 3:19 (ESV)
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

1 Timothy 2:12 (ESV)
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

1 Timothy 3:2 (ESV)
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Titus 2:4-5 (ESV)
and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5. to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

1 Peter 3:7 (ESV)
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.

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