What does a Biblical marriage look like? What are the duties and responsibilities of husbands and wives?
These are questions many Christians are faced with, and it’s very important for married couples to understand what scripture says on the topic.
A husband has many responsibilities toward his wife, and a wife has many responsibilities toward her husband, and to help remind you of these roles here are 57 Bible verses about marriage…
Bible Verses – Husband And Wife…
Colossians 3:18-19
“Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter towards them.”
Ephesians 5:20-21
“Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the Father: Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.”
Proverbs 5:18-19
“Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth: Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; he thou delighted continually with her love.”
1 Corinthians 11:9
“For the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.”
Proverbs 19:14
“House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.”
John 15:12
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.”
Ephesians 6:2
“Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise”
Ephesians 5:22-24
“Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord: Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body. Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-5
“Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up; Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil”
1 Corinthians 16:14
“Let all your things be done in charity.”
Proverbs 14:1
“A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.”
Proverbs 31:10
“Who shall find a valiant woman? far and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.”
1 Peter 4:8
“But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins.”
1 Corinthians 11:3
“But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.”
Matthew 5:32
“But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting for the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.”
1 Timothy 3:12
“Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their children, and their own houses.”
Genesis 3:16
“To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over thee.”
1 Timothy 2:12
“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.”
Matthew 19:9
“And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.”
Proverbs 12:4
“A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is a rottenness in his bones.”
Song of Solomon 8:6-7
“Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames. Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9
“It is better therefore that two should be together, than one: for they have the advantage of their society”
Romans 13:8
“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour, hath fulfilled the law.”
1 Corinthians 13:2
“And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”
Ephesians 5:25-33
“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it: That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life: That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy, and without blemish.
So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church: Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh. This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular love his wife as himself: and let the wife fear her husband.” [source]
1 Corinthians 6:16
“Or know you not, that he who is joined to a harlot, is made one body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.”
Proverbs 3:3-4
“Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart: And thou shalt find grace and good understanding before God and men.”
Proverbs 1:8
“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother”
Ephesians 4:2-3
“With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity. Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
1 Corinthians 7:3-5
“Let the husband render the debt to his wife, and the wife also in like manner to the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer; and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.”
Ephesians 6:4
“And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 13:13
“And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.”
1 Timothy 3:2
“It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher”
Hebrews 10:24-25
“And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works: Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed; but comforting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.”
Titus 2:4
“That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children”
Matthew 19:5
“For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.”
1 Peter 3:1-6
“In like manner also let wives be subject to their husbands: that if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives. Considering your chaste conversation with fear. Whose adorning let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel:
But the hidden man of the heart in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit, which is rich in the sight of God. For after this manner heretofore the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well, and not fearing any disturbance.”
1 John 4:16
“And we have known, and have believed the charity, which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him.”
Psalm 143:8
“Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.”
Romans 12:10
“Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood, with honour preventing one another.”
Colossians 3:14
“But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection”
Proverbs 18:22
“He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.”
Ephesians 5:28-33
“So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church: Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh. This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular love his wife as himself: and let the wife fear her husband.”
Song of Solomon 4:9
“Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck.”
Genesis 1:27-28
“And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.” [source]
Malachi 2:14-15
“And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast despised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant. Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.”
Isaiah 54:5
“For he that made thee shall rule over thee, the Lord of hosts is his name: and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, shall be called the God of all the earth.”
Genesis 2:18-25
“And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself. And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name.
And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself. Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam.
And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh. And they were both naked: to wit, Adam and his wife: and were not ashamed.”
Ephesians 4:32
“And be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.”
Ecclesiastes 9:9
“Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.”
1 Timothy 5:8
“But if any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
Titus 2:5
“To be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle, obedient to their husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
Matthew 5:28
“But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
Hebrews 13:4
“Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.”
1 John 4:12
“No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us.”
1 Peter 3:7
“Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel, and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.”
Mark 10:9
“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
Final Thoughts…
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