What Does the Bible Say About Obeying Your Husband?

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 6 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 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; ...

Matthew 19:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?”

Matthew 19:3-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” ...

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ...

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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. ...

12 Bible Verses about Obeying Your Husband

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 19:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 19:3-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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12 Bible Verses about Obeying Your Husband

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Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 19:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 19:3-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote