What Does the Bible Say About Characteristics Of A Good Husband?

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 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. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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 5:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Ephesians 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 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. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Romans 16:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,

Acts 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

22 Bible Verses about Characteristics Of A Good Husband

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 16:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 16:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes