Husbands
24 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
15 sections
- Bad: Ahasuerus
- Bad: Solomon
- Duties of, not to Interfere with Their Duties to Christ
- Duty of, to Wives: Not to Leave Them, Though Unbelieving
- Duty of, to Wives: To be Faithful to Them
- Duty of, to Wives: To Comfort Them
- Duty of, to Wives: To Consult with Them
- Duty of, to Wives: To Dwell with Them for Life
- Duty of, to Wives: To Love Them
- Duty of, to Wives: To Regard Them As Themselves
- Duty of, to Wives: To Respect Them
- Good: Elkanah
- Good: Isaac
- Have Authority Over Their Wives
- should Have but One Wife
Bad: Ahasuerus
- Esther 1:10–11 On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him — Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas — …
Bad: Solomon
- 1 Kings 11:1 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh — women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
Duties of, not to Interfere with Their Duties to Christ
- Luke 14:26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters — yes, even his own life — he cannot be My disciple.
- Matthew 19:29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
Duty of, to Wives: Not to Leave Them, Though Unbelieving
- 1 Corinthians 7:11–12 But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife. …
- 1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
- 1 Corinthians 7:16 How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
Duty of, to Wives: To be Faithful to Them
- Proverbs 5:19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
- Malachi 2:14–15 Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. …
Duty of, to Wives: To Comfort Them
- 1 Samuel 1:8 “Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
Duty of, to Wives: To Consult with Them
- Genesis 31:4–7 So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were, …
Duty of, to Wives: To Dwell with Them for Life
- Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- Matthew 19:3–9 Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” …
Duty of, to Wives: To Love Them
- Ephesians 5:25–33 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her …
- Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Duty of, to Wives: To Regard Them As Themselves
- Genesis 2:23 And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
- Matthew 19:5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
Duty of, to Wives: To Respect Them
- 1 Peter 3:7 Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
Good: Elkanah
- 1 Samuel 1:4–5 And whenever the day came for Elkanah to present his sacrifice, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. …
Good: Isaac
- Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
Have Authority Over Their Wives
- Genesis 3:16 To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
- Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.
should Have but One Wife
- Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- Mark 10:6–8 However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ …
- 1 Corinthians 7:2–4 But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. …
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.